GRUELLING TEST
45 SOVIET WOMEN
6263 MILES BY CAR
(Received October 7, 11.30 a.m.)
MOSCOW, October 6,
Forty-five women have just completed a gruelling two months' automobile expedition across Soviet territory designed to test their stamina. They covered 6263 miles in 45 days of actual driving, in cars manufactured in Russia, thus averaging 139 miles a day. The route Jay through seven Republics of the Soviet Union, and every type of weather was encountered. The women traversed camel trails, Kazakstan footpaths, salt marshes, in the Little Kara Kum district, and mountain ridges in the Urals.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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