The heroism of Soviet sailors (12 photos)

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 survival 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. Barge wind blown off from the shore and carried out to sea. First Ashat teammates are not very upset.



Cigarettes ended in the first place. And in this 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, the US aircraft carrier planes «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 US aircraft carrier with a capacity.



Junior sergeant Rahimzyanovich Askhat Ziganshin, ordinary Philip G. Poplawski, Anatoly Kryuchkovsky and Ivan E. 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. Do you regret that they refused? - No regrets! I used to be among the minority of their own. In America, you can visit, but not to live. And now offered to the United States to move - would not go! "