Commanders of armies and fronts. Strongly worn out ' Muromtsy '
| to Pass to sections: Commanders of armies and fronts It has allowed to form Northern group of the air ships of Air fleet RKKA which was headed by the military pilot And. V.Pankratev. After tjazhelogoorganizatsionnogo the period, creation of base, adjustment of training of new pilots and attendants, the squadron renamed into the Battalion of the air ships ' by IT ', has taken part in civil war. in hands of the known Russian pilots, taken the side of October revolution (G.V.Alehnovicha, And. V.Pankrateva, I.S.Bashko and others, again trained), krasnozvezdnye ' Muromtsy ' put oshchutimyeudary on a cavalry of Mamontova, on armies belopoljakov and Vrangelja. With the termination of civil war the Battalion has been translated for peace work. Having plenty, strongly worn out ' Muromtsy ' began to fly on the first Soviet regular pochtovo-passenger airline Moscow - an Eagle-harkov, opened on May, 1st, 1921 For 43 flights made from May, 1st till October, 10th, 1921, has been transported 60 passengers and more than two-tons of cargoes. in view of definitive deterioration of an equipment the Battalion of the air ships has been liquidated, its property is transferred to creation of new school of shooting and bombing. Among this property was and remained one flying ' Muromets '. |
In 1918 the squadron of the air ships remained in Ukraine in the area occupied with Germans and its property has been plundered. But in the spring of the same year of a reserve and spare parts at factory in Petrograd it has been constructed a little ' Muromtsev '. 
