Aviaarktika

Aviaarktika was a Soviet airline which started operations on 1 September 1930 and was absorbed by Aeroflot on 3 January 1960.

Aviaarktika was the flying branch of the Department of Polar Aviation of Glavsevmorput.

Its first head was Mark Shevelev and it was originally based in Krasnoyarsk.

Initially Aviaarktika flew the Junkers F.13 floatplane and six Dornier Wal flying boats.

CCCP-H317 crash-landed in Siberian tundra in 1944 and was recovered 39 years later and restored for the museum.