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A four-part documentary about the main aviation triumph of the 1930s: the flights of the crews of Valery Chkalov and Mikhail Gromov across the North Pole to the United States. Episode 1 By the early 1930s, Soviet aviation was constantly playing catch-up in the global race for air supremacy. The country's leadership decides to create an aircraft capable of breaking all conceivable records for non-stop flight range. The best pilot of the USSR, Mikhail Gromov, is to become the crew commander. But unexpectedly for everyone, the record flight is entrusted to another pilot, Sigismund Levanevsky, who shortly before this, by order of Stalin, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for a feat that he only attempted to accomplish. Episode 2 The whole world follows the attempt of Soviet pilots to fly to the United States across the North Pole. But this attempt almost ends in their deaths. The commander of the ANT-25 crew, Sigismund Levanevsky, accuses the creator of the aircraft, Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev, of sabotage in the presence of Stalin. However, the second pilot, Georgy Baidukov, believes that the ANT-25 can fly over the North Pole and finds an ally, Valery Chkalov. But first they have to prove that the aircraft is really capable of this. Episode 3 The flight of Chkalov's crew to the Far East becomes a triumph for the entire Soviet Union. He confirms that it is possible to make the first transpolar flight in history on the ANT-25. The crews of Valery Chkalov and Mikhail Gromov fight for permission to fly to the USA over the North Pole. The leadership makes a decision: they must fly out simultaneously on two ANT-25 aircraft. But only one crew is destined to take off on time. Episode 4 Chkalov's crew makes a triumphant journey across America; they become the first to fly over the North Pole. At this time, Gromov's crew is flying the same route. But it is no longer enough for them to fly over the pole and reach the USA. They manage to set a record for the longest non-stop flight in a straight line, the most prestigious of all aviation records.