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Was not an exception in this respect and Russia, which though and with some delay in comparison with France and Germany, but nevertheless has started to develop the aviation industry for some years prior to the beginning of war.

to One of pioneers of this business in Russia became the Riga Russian-Baltic carload factory (RBVZ), in due time begun Russian car building, and then davshijrossii and the first Russian cars.

At the initiative of the chairman of the council of Joint-stock company RBVZ M.V.Shidlovskogo the spring of 1911 had been sent abroad for acquaintance with aviation business recommended by the Chief of Aeronautic park the lieutenant general A. M.Kovanko engineer Berezovsky and one employee of automobile department of factory. Berezovsky has received instruktsijuprismatrivatsja to all event in the field of aircraft abroad and to get noteworthy devices and motors. It had been got one airplane entering then in a fashion of system Sommera and motors ' ENV ' ' the Aster ' and two motors ' Volumes '.

They have been delivered to Riga to Carload factory where the small aviation workshop - department of construction of the flying machines has been equipped, begun svojudejatelnost from construction of several airplanes of Sommera on the French sample. One of them in the beginning of 1911 has been handed over Department of Air Fleet (OVF), and the others - the aviation school organised by factory in Riga on a local hippodrome.