Saturday, July 19, 2014

Changes on the return journey via Russia

A week ago, Petropavlovsk Airport started constructions on the apron and the airport not accepting airplanes overnight and very limited number of operations during the day.
This is why we are changing airports in Russia

Original Itinerary (Magenta Line)
July 21: Nagoya – New Chitose – 500nm
July 22: New Chitose – Petropavlovsk – 930nm
July 23: Petropavlovsk – Anadyr – Anchorage (Arrive on the 22nd) – 920+900nm
July 24: Anchorage - Seattle

Current Itinerary (Black line)
July 21: Nagoya – Sakhalinsk – 750nm
July 22: Sakhalinsk – Magadan – 830nm
July 23: Magadan – Anadyr – Anchorage (Arrive on the 22nd) – 800+900nm
July 24: Anchorage - Seattle

we are now going to Madagan

Magadan was founded in 1929 on the site of an earlier settlement from the 1920s. During the Stalin era, Magadan was a major transit center for prisoners sent to labor camps. From 1932 to 1953, it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy organization—a vast and brutal forced-labor gold-mining operation and forced-labor camp system. The town later served as a port for exporting gold and other metals mined in the Kolyma region.[10] Its size and population grew quickly as facilities were rapidly developed for the expanding mining activities in the area. Town status was granted to it on July 14, 1939.[citation needed]
Magadan was temporarily transformed into a Potemkin village to mark an official visit by U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace in May 1944.[citation needed] He took an instant liking to his secret policeman host, admired handiwork done by prisoners, and later glowingly called the city a combination of Tennessee Valley Authority and Hudson's Bay Company. Wallace's collaborative stance towards Russia discouraged the Democratic Party of the United States from renominating him as vice president later in the summer of 1944, helping lead to the selection of Harry Truman in his place.


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