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Aeroflot Flight 2022 crashes in the Soviet Union's (now Russia) Volokolamsky District, killing all 51 aboard, including four Lithuanian doctors.

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Aeroflot Flight 2022

Tupolev Tu-124 crash in 1973

Aeroflot Flight 2022 was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight between Vilnius Airport in Lithuanian SSR and Moscow–Vnukovo Airport in Russian SFSR, that crashed on 16 December 1973, killing all 51 people on board. The flight suffered a loss of control as a result of a…
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Volokolamsky District

District in Moscow Oblast, Russia

Volokolamsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast and borders with Mozhaysky District in the south, Shakhovskoy District in the west, Lotoshinsky District in the…
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December 16

Day of the year

December 16 is the 350th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 15 days remain until the end of the year.
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