It was a large wooden biplane, with wings and fuselage covered in fabric.

[1] The aircraft awoke much interest, but failed to receive funding before World War I.

In desperate need of aircraft, the project was given a 100,000 rubles funding by E.M. Malynsky and production started in December 1914.

As suitable engines were hard to come by, Slesarev tried to mount some that had been taken from a downed Zeppelin.

He contacted the French when this did not work out, and received some Renault engines, which could produce 220 hp.