Stayin Alive. Soviet sailors, 1960

Very cool story about Russian heroes! Strap - for breakfast, boots - for lunch. Askhat Ziganshin with his friends lived in the ocean 49 days. In 1960 they were national heroes!

Askhat Ziganshin with his friends lived in the ocean 49 days. This reality show of survival the world has ever known!



Tractor Askhat Ziganshin was called up for military service on the island of Sakhalin from Syzran in 1958. After 8 months of "SCHOOL" was sent to the Kuril Islands.



On that fateful day, January 17, when the work had already been completed, the wind rose. The barge wind blown off from the shore and carried out to sea. First Askhat teammates are not very upset.



Cigarettes have ended in the first place. And in such a situation do? Only smoking.



March 7th term of life was measured while only three matches, but the last uneaten boots. Salvation came from the sky, aircraft American aircraft carrier «Kearsarge», near the island of Midway.



Often such cases ended tragically. People were thrown overboard, it came even to cannibalism. But Ziganshin teammates managed to maintain a human face.



Here they saw such Americans. Poplawski and Ziganshin.



After being picked up by the Americans, Ziganshin could not even shave himself.



Soviet soldiers met on the American aircraft carrier with a capacity.



Sergeant Rahimzyanovich Askhat Ziganshin, ordinary Philip G. Poplawski, Anatoly E. Kryuchkovsky and Ivan Fedotov. This quartet competed in popularity with Gagarin and the group "The Beatles».



Another world in the past. Homeland meets his heroes.



"In 1960, you offered political asylum in the United States. You do not regret that you have refused? - I do not regret! I from childhood used to be among friends. In America, you can visit, but not to live. And now the offer to move to the United States - would not go! »



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