Aeroflot's at Ulyanovsk. Just a few patterns and no landings. The IP spoke no English, I spoke essentially no Russian and we worked (if it can be called that) through an interpreter on the jumpseat. Very interesting time. Ulyanovsk was a big Aeroflot training base and museum. I later had dinner with the head of the school and learned that often with dinner, not wine but brandy. Good brandy mind you but still a bottle of brandy.

I also got to fly a -134 sim and a very little time on the stick of a Yak42 from St Petersburg to Ulyanovsk. No stick time on the IL-62 over (JFK-Moscow). Long time ago.