# Aeroflot Flight 214

Aeroflot Flight 214 was a crash that occurred on 6 August 1955 involving an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft operated by Aeroflot with tail number СССР-Л5057. The aircraft was operating a flight on the route Moscow–Stalingrad (now Volgograd)–Moscow. During the flight, the right engine failed and caught fire. The developing fire led to the destruction of the wing. The aircraft lost control and crashed. All 25 people on board were killed, including 10 members of a delegation of Norwegian women who had arrived in the USSR at the invitation of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, and three of its staff members who were accompanying the guests. A government commission led by the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Mikhail Krunichev, arrived at the scene to investigate the causes of the accident.

## Circumstances of the accident

During the war in Nazi-occupied Norway, inspired by the heroism of the defenders of Stalingrad, activists from various public organizations secretly sewed a Soviet flag, which they later presented to the Soviet military after the liberation of the country. The flag was delivered to Stalingrad and was kept in a museum there. The women's delegation was invited to visit the city. On their way back from Stalingrad, they were on the ill-fated plane.

## Casualties
   ### Norwegian delegation

* Gullborg Nyberg (Norwegian: Gullborg Nyberg, b. 1909) — from the Women's Committee of the National Confederation of Trade Unions
* Alice Olsen (Norwegian: Alice Olsen, b. 1917) — from the Women's Secretariat of the Norwegian Labour Party
* Anna Margareta Backer (Norwegian: Greta Lorange Backer, b. 1914) — from the Norwegian Association of Left-Wing Women
* Klara Rudvin (Norwegian: Klara Elise Rudvin, b. 1899) — from the Women's Organization of the Christian People's Party
* Solvei Willoch (Norwegian: Solvei Edlund Willoch, b. 1915) — from the Women's Committee of the Communist Party of Norway
* Sigrid Gunderud (Norwegian: Sigrid Nærup Gunderud, b. 1894) — from the Norwegian Women's Association
* Magnhild Hallsjø (Norwegian: Magnhild Hallsjø, b. 1902) — from the Norwegian Association of Housewives
* Signe Leikvam (Norwegian: Signe Leikvam, b. 1905) — President of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom
* Ingerid Resi (Norwegian: Ingerid Gjøstein Resi, b. 1901) — from the Norwegian Association for Women's Affairs
* Ester Pierre (Norwegian: Ester Pierre, b. 1902) — from the Norwegian Tobacco Workers' Union

   ### Employees of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women (buried in the columbarium of Novodevichy Cemetery, old section)

* Maria Pavlovna Popova (b. 1915) — Secretary of the Party Organization of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women
* Tatyana Ivanovna Gorinova (b. 1905) — Lecturer at AON under the Central Committee of the CPSU
* Inna Yuryevna Ryabova (b. 1932)

   ### Aircraft crew (buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery)

* Grigory Fedorovich Shamritsky (b. 19.01.1913) — Captain
* Ivan Ivanovich Turikov (b. 02.09.1913) — Co-pilot
* Nikolai Timofeevich Aristarkhov (b. 05.05.1921) — Flight Engineer
* Anatoly Ivanovich Shtalin (b. 30.06.1926) — Radio Operator
* Maria Nikanorovna Loginova (b. 10.03.1938) — Flight Attendant