title: Soviet Air Transport
abstract: The difficulty of obtaining statistical information beyond the modest amounts published in the official statistical handbook is, of course, familiar to all who work on the Soviet economic scene. Compared with the statistics available for agriculture, for example, those published for Soviet aviation may be likened to the struggling plants of Novaya Zemlya compared with the lush vegetation of the Crimea. Narodnoye khozyaystvo tables present figures for the annual totals of passengers carried, pass