About air flying in Russia

The provincial Russian town of Nerekhta is celebrating its 775th anniversary. The basis of the holiday is the legend about the local craftsman Krikutny, who was the first in the world in 1731 to fly in a balloon. Was there really the balloonist Krikutny, or was this story invented by the provincial official Sulukadzev? Whom to believe? To the text of the charter for the first ballooning or to historians who refute the reality of this event?

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

19 minutes

Year:

1989

Director:

Aleksey Balabanov

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Company:

Kyivnaukfilm,

Lenfilm

Cast:
Crew:
Oleksandr Frolov

Director of Photography

Sergey Karnet

Production Design

Vladimir Suvorov

Writer

Aleksey Balabanov

Director

Valeriy Balayan

Writer