An orchestra greeted the expedition participants at the Murmansk fishing port's moorings. Friends and relatives greeted the scientists at the ramp. Kirill Filchuk, the expedition's leader ...

In the Murmansk region, wrecks of other planes such as the Soviet I-16, Il-2, MiG-3, and Pe-2, the American Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, the British Handley Page Hampden, and the German Heinkel He 111 ...