Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1938
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Alaska; Sigismund Levanevsky; Russian Lindbergh; transpolar flight; soviet government; Michael Beliakov; Hubert Wilkins; explorer; United States; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Pacific; Wilkins
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86129

Wilkins Will Return Soon: Russian Official Ordered To Abandon Hunt For Six Lost Last August. WILKINS WILL RETURN SOON Russian Official Ordered to Abandon Hunt for Six Lost Last August. FAIRBANKS, Alaska. — (U. P.) — Sigismund Levanevsky, the Russian Lindbergh, and five companions who disappeared last August 13 on a transpolar flight to America, were given up for lost today in the arctic wastes. The soviet government decided further search for the flyers was futile, and ordered its agent, Michael Beliakov, to return home. The flyers carried food supplies, rifles, blankets, clothing and tents which might have enabled them to live for six weeks or more. Beliakov said Sir Hubert Wilkins, explorer, who has been aiding in the search, would return to the United States soon.