The first Heroes of the Soviet Union were pilots who flew people off an ice floe.
In 1934 the ice crushed the steamer Chelyuskin in the Chukchi Sea, and over a hundred people, two small children among them, waited by an airstrip cleared with shovels.
More amazing facts
- 1933 · 1983 Earth's lowest temperature was measured at a Soviet Antarctic station: −89.2 °C at Vostok on 21 July 1983.
- 1933 · 1938 The chain reaction was conceived to spite Rutherford.
- 1934 Until 1934 people in Turkey were not required to have surnames.
- 1934 · 1935 Hachikō's statue went up while the dog was still alive.
- 1935 Until 1935 the West called the country Persia.
- 1935 · 1937 The Kremlin's ruby stars are less than a century old. Double-headed eagles topped the towers until 1935; they gave way to stars set with gems, and in 1937 to today's ruby-glass stars.