SOVIET SKI RUNNERS
A REMARKABLE JOURNEY MOSCOW, February 21. (Received Feb. 22, at 11J5 p.m.) Five Red Army ski runners travelled 3200 miles from Irkutsk to participate in the anniversary of the Red Army on February 23. They crossed the Ural and Taiga Mountains, where the" temperature was 60 degrees below zero. They averaged 40 miles a day, except on the last day, when they covered 70 miles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22195, 23 February 1934, Page 9
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68SOVIET SKI RUNNERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22195, 23 February 1934, Page 9
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