Budni

Будни (Budni) title screen.

Movie (1940)
Russian title : Будни
French title : Jours ouvrables (?)
English title : Black-letter Days (?)

Starring:
B. Terentiev (Nicolaï Slavin)
Galina Sergeyeva (Elena Slavina)
I. Novoseltsev (Zubov, the reckless pilot)
M. Derzhavin (Vasyanin)

(Synopsis needed)

Laville PS-89

Reg. СССР-Л2146 / SSSR-L2146 Laville PS-89 serial number 898 was the last one of a set of only seven production airframes.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (civil section).

Engine just stopped, the pilot removes his ear plug. Note the Aeroflot title and the pilot's white shoe :

Takeoff :

The cockpit :

In the background, a ground personnel is loading luggage in the nose compartment :

The small access door so different of the one shown in the 2005 TV series ! (Master i Margarita).

Polikarpov U-2

Background :

Main :

Reg. СССР-Л192 / SSSR-L192 Polikarpov U-2 c/n 0185 first used by Zubov for a first flight, some aerobatics and eventually a crash in the swamp !

What a surprise to see her flying again during the airshow !

Polikarpov U-2 AP

Reg. СССР-A1064 / SSSR-A1064 Polikarpov U-2 AP c/n 14237.

Reg. СССР-A976 / SSSR-A976 Polikarpov U-2 AP c/n 12159.

Polikarpov U-2 SP

Reg. СССР-Л3126 / SSSR-L3126 Polikarpov U-2 SP c/n 14379 (or 14279 ?).

Reg. СССР-Л3129 / SSSR-L3129 Polikarpov U-2 SP c/n 14282.

Kalinin K-5

On the left far background.

Douglas DC-3-260

Reg. CCCP-Л3403 (SSSR-L3403) Douglas DC-3-260 c/n 2096, bought in the USA. To Aeroflot in June 1939, later named PS-84 (when fitted with new engines ?).

With Stal-3 (left border) in the distance.

Polikarpov U-2 S

(bottom right) Two Polikarpov U-2 S at the lineup's end.

Polikarpov R-5

Seen by a nightly and foggy hour.

Putilov Stal-3

Seen by a nightly and foggy hour.

Tupolev ANT-6

Tupolev ANT-6 is the manufacturer name but the single buyer, the Soviet Air Force named it TB-3. In 1940, the type was in a process of retirement (despite still playing a main role in July 1941 !). Airframes were actually converted to passenger and cargo transport for Aeroflot and rename as Tupolev G-2. This only sight with such a blurred shape couldn't help to say exactly which variant.

Yakovlev UT-2

Wearing the Aeroflot title.

Poster

Wallpaper inside the airport terminal with what seems a Douglas DC-3 or a Lisunov Li-2 with a map of air routes.

Places

Airport of Kiev-Brovary which was the place where Istrebiteli was filmed the previous year. German army offensive totally destroyed it in 1941 and after the war, a new place was held for the next airport.
Just before the touch down of the Laville PS-89 in front of some Polikarpov U-2s and other passenger aircraft.

Another outstanding place (despite still unidentified). Seen during the paradropping demo at the airshow.

Autogiro

Seems closest to the Cierva C.30 than any Soviet indigenous design.

But the shadow is a desk model of the Laville PS-89 :

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• Budni on IMDb
• Budni on IMCDb