FARNBOROUGH: Komsomolsk - an unlikely centre for Russia's new aviation industry

Russia’s first “Western” jet is assembled in a city that is about as far from the West as you can be in that vast country. An 8h flight across seven time zones from Moscow and frozen for much of the year, Komsomolsk-on-Amur was established in the 1930s to build ships ...

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