Gatchina
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Гатчина (Gatchina) is a town southwest of Saint Petersburg where the Russian military, First Russian Aeronautics Company Shchetinin & Co., conducted aviation activities including training.
In April 1910 General Alexander Matveevich Kowanko appinted G. G. Gorshkov to head the Gatchina airfield, initiating the Gatchina Flying School. Activity began immediately and in October, G. V. Alekhnovich made the first flight from Gatchina to Petersburg.[1]
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Publications referring to Gatchina or Gatchina aerodrome or Gatchina airfield or Гатчина
- Kozlov, 1910, On the aerodrome of Gatchino (Simple title: On the aerodrome of Gatchina, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Semenov, 1910, On the aerodrome of Gatchina (Simple title: On the aerodrome of Gatchina)
- Lebedev, 2014, First Airfields of Saint Petersburg (Simple title: First Airfields of Saint Petersburg, Journal: 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences)
