“Free Harbours”: Soviet-German Scientific Cooperation in Aircraft and Arctic Regions Research

• Published in: Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts
• Main Author: Sobisevich, Alexey Vladimirovich
• Other Authors: Research for this article was funded with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, project 20-78-10095 “Soviet Science as an Industry: Personnel, Infrastructure, Organisational and Management Practices (1920s–1970s)”., Статья подготовлена при поддержке РНФ, проект № 20-78-10095 «Советская наука как индустрия: кадры, инфраструктура, организационно-управленческие практики (1920–1970-е гг.)».
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина 2021
• Subjects: всемирная история; история России; development of the Arctic; airship building; aeronautics; scientific diplomacy; Soviet science; Walther Bruns; Umberto Nobile; освоение Арктики; дирижаблестроение; воздухоплавание; научная дипломатия; советская наука; Вальтер Брунс; Умберто Нобиле; Arctic; Bruns; Nobile
• Online Access: https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/5625; https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2021.23.4.072

In 1924, the German aeronaut Walter Bruns turned to the Soviet government with a proposal of cooperation in the field of aeronautics. He suggested creating a concession company for the transportation of passengers by airship from Europe to East Asia, granting the bases of airships the right of extra...