Pin made in Soviet Russia. The pin shows the Tupolev ANT-9. The text on the pin reads:”The first multi-seat passenger aircraft″, “Wings of the Soviets” and “Flight to European countries”.
The Tupolev ANT-9 was a Soviet passenger aircraft of the 1930s. It was developed as a reaction to the demand for a domestic airliner.
Two of these airplanes were used by Deruluft, starting from 1933 on the Berlin-Moscow service. Mikhail Gromov accomplished a European round flight on the route Moscow-Travemünde-Berlin-Paris-Rome-Marseille-London-Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow in 1929. Up to the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, they served as passenger or staff airplanes mainly on routes in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Afterwards they were used until 1943 as transport and medical airplanes. One was modified into a propaganda aircraft named Krokodil (Crocodile) with a reptile-like plywood nose.