Soviet Civil Aviation

24 pp. "The construction of civil airlines assumed larger proportions during the period of the First Five-Year Plan... It was continued on even a larger scale during the period of the Second Five-Year Plane (1933-37). As a result of this construction which has gone on continuously for many years the entire vast territory of the Soviet Union has been covered with a wide network of airlines.... The planning and geographic distribution of the airlines in the U.S.S.R. aims primarily to meet the requirements of national economy. The main task to be considered is that of building up a system of rapid transportation and of linking the central sections of the country with important industrial centers and with the outlying districts."