The Russian (joint-stock) company of the voluntary air fleet "Dobrolet" - which existed in 1923 - 1930. in the Soviet Union, an air transport organization .
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History
The Russian joint-stock company of the Voluntary Air Fleet - Dobrolet was created in the USSR on March 17, 1923 to promote the development of the country's air fleet. The authorized capital amounted to 2 million rubles. in gold. The main goal was the organization of air mail, passenger and cargo lines, the solution of the tasks of the national economy related to aviation (for example, aerial photography of the area), as well as the development of the Soviet aviation industry. Geographically, the activities of this organization spanned Russia and Central Asia .
The idea of creating “Dobrolet”, according to some sources, belonged to one of the main organizers of the October Revolution and the creators of the Red Army, Leo Trotsky , at that time a drug addict for military and naval affairs , who assigned the new society a strategic role as the creator of the state’s air power. [2]
It is believed that the emblem of society was subsequently invented by world-famous avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich , and the author of the first Dobrolet advertising posters was Alexander Rodchenko , one of the founders of constructivism , the founder of design and advertising in the USSR. [3]
On October 29, 1930, the All-Union Association of the Civil Air Fleet under the Council of Labor and Defense was formed . The Dobrolet Society, the Ukrvozdukhukhut Society, the Zakavia Society and the Main Air Fleet Inspectorate (established on December 1, 1922 by the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic under the Main Directorate of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Air Fleet ( Glavvozdukhoflot ) - were abolished, and on their basis it was A new association was created, by which time the total length of the Company's lines was 26 thousand km, 47 thousand passengers and 408 tons of cargo were transported. In the late 1920s, the company was also assembling under the license of passenger-and-freight aircraft Junkers F.13 .
February 25, 1932 in the Civil Air Fleet under the Council of Labor and Defense was transformed into the Main Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet (GUGVF) under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR . A.Z. Goltsman was appointed the first head of the State Civil Property Management Fund . Exactly one month later it received the name Aeroflot .
Aircraft operated in Dobrolet
- Junkers f.13
- K-4
- K-5
- U-2
See also
- Volunteer Fleet
Notes
Literature
- Aviation. Encyclopedia. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 1994 .-- 736 p. - ISBN 5-85270-086-X .