Alaska Airlines’ Friendship Flight is guarded on the airstrip in Provideniya, USSR. The flight was the first by a commercial jetliner to that Bering Sea coast community at the height of the Cold War. (Photo via Provideniya Museum)
Nome’s Jim Stimpfle (left) and Provideniya Mayor Oleg Kulinkin celebrate the Friendship Flight landing in Provideniya in June 13, 1988 (June 14 in Russia). U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski and Gov. Steve Cowper also joined the celebration. (Photo via Provideniya Museum)