File:Antonov An-2 Fire Patrol (7796151052).jpg

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Сибиа Ан-2 / Sibia An-2 RA-54946

An Antonov An-2 flying over us, inspecting the extent of the progressing fire.

An-2 is an old and reliable workhorse of the Russian civil aviation - it made its maiden flight in 1947.

When it flew over us, there was a strange feeling of traveling back in time - pristine taiga, absolutely no one around, navigating with a map and compass - and being on a romantic, patriotic, and at the same time unreasonably unsafe and basically useless mission. It felt very... Soviet :)))
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Author Tatiana Bulyonkova from Novosibirsk, Russia
Camera location59° 50′ 12.77″ N, 74° 47′ 05.87″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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