GRUELLING JOURNEY
RUSSIAN WOMEN TEST THEIR STAMINA UNUSUAL MOTORING EXPEDITION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, October 6. (Received October 7, at 12.30 p.m.) Forty-five women have just completed a gruelling two months’ automobile expedition across Soviet Russia, designed to test their stamina. They covered 6,263 miles in 45 days’ actual driving. The cars were manufactured in Russia, and averaged 139 miles a day. The route was through seven republics of the Soviet Union. Every type of weather was experienced, and the expedition traversed camel trails in Kazakstan, footpaths and salt marshes in the Kara-Kum desert, and mountain ridges in the Urals.
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Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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100GRUELLING JOURNEY Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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