Sevastopol – Yeysk – Volsk – Sverdlovsk – Omsk – Novosibirsk – Krasnoyarsk – Irkutsk – Vitim – Yakutsk – Nogaevo – Cape Severny

On July 12, 1933 at 11:30 AM, Sevastopol – Yeysk – Volsk – Sverdlovsk – Omsk – Novosibirsk – Krasnoyarsk – Irkutsk – Vitim – Yakutsk – Nogaevo – Cape Severny experienced a crash involving Savoia-Marchetti S.55, operated by Polyarnaya Aviatsiya, with the event recorded near Volsk Saratov oblast.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 60.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The seaplane departed Sevastopol on a flight to Cape Severny with several en route stops, carrying one passenger (one journalist from the Komsomolskaya Pravda) and four crew members. On the leg from Yeysk to Volsk, while flying over the Volga River at a speed of 175-200 km/h and at a height of about 10-15 metres, the airplane encountered a cold front, lost altitude and crashed into the river, some 300 metres from the shore. Fishermen were able to rescue two crew members while three other occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-N11, MSN 10526, year of manufacture 1933.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 52.0428°, 47.3860°.