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Just got a permission from an author of this picture to post it here. What a beauty! Such a nice visual compliment to a topic risen in the previous post. A shot of this departing An-2 was taken in Nar’yan-Mar, Arctic Russia.

As for geography, the region’s location is to the West of Ural Mountains, so, it is NOT Siberia. Nevertheless, the surrounding country would perfectly satisfy a most refined definition of ‘bush territory’. (”Because it Arctic, dude!”, one might say )

I’ll try to get some ‘meat’ about operations by the local aviation enterprises reaching the bush which lays across this region of Arctic Russia.

Back to the topic of skis that we touched yesterday,

- I’ve never heard of the An-2s being operated in Russia on ‘wheel-skis’, though. The reason may be just as this: they don’t fly such a type of winter undercarriage whatsoever. The simple, proven ‘board skis’ only - that’s what they use, and I’ll bet, there’s not a great variety of models in use too, let alone - the ‘makes’. Although, I heard from a friend (who’s pictures taken in Yakutia we saw in this post) that there’s a choice of board skis manufactured in Poland, and operators like them better; besides, they weigh less than the ‘homemade’, by 35 kg (76 lbs).

Anyway, an ancient ‘rule of thumb’ - ‘everything in Russia is tending to hover on the brink of utter simplicity’ - seems to be working all right in this case

(to be continued..)