{"id":1323638,"date":"2026-05-28T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/tu-134-fake-road-landing-italians-russia-1974\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:32:11","slug":"tu-134-scheinlandung-auf-der-strase-italiener-russland-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/tu-134-fake-road-landing-italians-russia-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Tu-134, die auf einer Autobahn landete \u2013 f\u00fcr einen sowjetischen Film von 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Not a real road for cars. A road-coloured runway, marked up with traffic paint, complete with painted Lada-grey lane lines and roadside signs in Cyrillic, all of it laid down across a reserve runway at the airfield of the city's civil-aviation flight school. Then they got the deputy head of the school, Ivan Tarashchan, to land a Tupolev Tu-134 jetliner on it \u2014 at full landing speed, in a straight line.<\/p>\r\n<p>The scene appears in the 1974 film \"\u041d\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0440\u043e\u044f\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043a\u043b\u044e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0438\u0442\u0430\u043b\u044c\u044f\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0432 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438\" \u2014 \"Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia\" \u2014 directed by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi. It plays as a chase gag, with the jetliner improbably descending onto a crowded motorway. Nothing in the scene is CGI. Nothing is rear-projected. The jet is a real Tu-134. The road is a real, full-length, jet-rated runway disguised by the film's art department to look like an ordinary Soviet highway. And every \"civilian\" car on it is being driven by a pilot who has spent the morning being briefed on exactly how not to get hit by a 47-tonne airliner.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 8px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 8px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; font-size: 16px;\">Quick Facts<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>Film:<\/strong> \"Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia\" (1974)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>Directors:<\/strong> Eldar Ryazanov (USSR) \/ Franco Prosperi (Italy)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134, twin-jet airliner<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Airfield of the Ulyanovsk civil aviation flight school (ShVLP)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>\"Road\":<\/strong> Reserve runway disguised with paint and props as a public motorway<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>\"Drivers\":<\/strong> Pilots from the school, in their own cars<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0;\"><strong>Soviet box office (1974):<\/strong> 49.2 million tickets sold<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width: 560px; margin: 0 auto 28px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY0hPpazLSv\/embed\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">A Soviet-Italian comedy in the deep Cold War<\/h2>\r\n<p>By 1973 the Soviet Union and Italy had concluded a decade of cinematic co-productions that, by Politburo standards, qualified as warm. The Italian film industry \u2014 strong, leftward-leaning, hungry for the Russian market \u2014 kept making joint films with Mosfilm. Eldar Ryazanov, then in his mid-forties and already one of the most successful comedy directors in Soviet cinema, was paired with Franco Prosperi to make a slapstick chase comedy in which a group of Italian fortune-hunters search for hidden Tsarist gold across Leningrad and Moscow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%!important; max-width: 100%!important; height: auto!important; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/tu-134-soviet-airliner-aeroflot.jpg\" alt=\"Tupolev Tu-134 Aeroflot livery\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">A Tupolev Tu-134 in Aeroflot livery. Just over 850 were built between 1966 and 1989. The aircraft in the 1974 film was a Tu-134 flown by the Ulyanovsk civil-aviation flight school, whose airmen performed all the flying. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The script called for a jet landing on a highway, and a model shot would have looked exactly like what it was. The answer came from Ulyanovsk, home of the USSR's school of higher flight training for civil aviation. Its deputy head, Ivan Tarashchan, offered to perform the stunt himself \u2014 by most accounts he asked the Ministry of Civil Aviation for a letter authorising him to fly outside the manual, was refused, and the landings went ahead on the school's own airfield regardless. A real Tu-134 was found.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">How they actually built the shot<\/h2>\r\n<p>The location was a reserve runway at the school's airfield in Ulyanovsk, with concrete thick enough to handle Tu-134-class loads. The set department painted over the runway markings, added lane lines, and dressed the verges with planted trees, traffic lights, house facades and Soviet newspaper kiosks. From the air at low altitude the result looked like a normal stretch of two-lane Soviet highway.<\/p>\r\n<p>The \"civilian\" traffic was Tarashchan's own condition: only passenger cars, and only pilots behind the wheel. The school mobilised every flyer who owned a car, reasoning that in an emergency pilots would react instantly and correctly. They could see, in their rearview mirrors, exactly where the jet would be and what they had to do to stay out of its path.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>The pilot was Ivan Tarashchan, deputy head of the Ulyanovsk school of higher flight training. He landed the aircraft on the disguised runway six times for the camera \u2014 six approaches, six clean touchdowns \u2014 while the cars wove beneath the wings.<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>The Ulyanovsk stunt<\/strong> \u2014 as recorded in Russian accounts of the filming<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The shot the Italians could not believe<\/h2>\r\n<p>The shot is cut into the film as a single approach, touchdown and rollout. From the air the road looks completely ordinary. The aircraft passes over a Soviet woman pushing a perambulator. The aircraft passes between two Ladas. The aircraft touches down between the painted lane markings and rolls past the camera with its thrust reversers fully deployed, kicking up dust and propsetting.<\/p>\r\n<p>The follow-up shots \u2014 the Tu-134 taxiing down the \"highway\" while cars dart beneath its wings and overtake it \u2014 were filmed on the same reserve runway, dressed even more elaborately: house facades, traffic lights, planted trees, newspaper kiosks and a kvass barrel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\" style=\"margin: 0 0 28px;\">\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzbG2tSEF10\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Aeroflot Tu-134 Landing on Highway \u2014 Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974). The full scene as it appears in the film.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The film, the aircraft, the legacy<\/h2>\r\n<p>The film opened in the Soviet Union in 1974 and sold 49.2 million tickets in its first year \u2014 making it one of the most-attended Soviet releases of the year. It was released in Italy as \"Una matta, matta, matta corsa in Russia\" with very modest box office, though it remains a cult favourite in both countries. The Tu-134 highway-landing sequence is, in 2026, one of the most-watched pieces of Soviet film footage on YouTube.<\/p>\r\n<p>The runway it landed on belonged to the flight school's airfield at Ulyanovsk, which went on training Soviet and Russian civil-aviation pilots for decades afterwards; the road dressing was struck as soon as the cameras stopped.<\/p>\r\n<p>What Ryazanov and Prosperi produced is, in essence, one of the most spectacular practical stunts in aviation cinema history. No green screen. No miniatures. 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A real twin-jet airliner landed on a real Soviet runway disguised as a Soviet highway, with real pilots driving Soviet cars across its path \u2014 six times over, until the directors had every frame they needed.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Russian-language accounts of the Ulyanovsk shoot (73online.ru; 1ul.ru); Mosfilm; Russian Wikipedia entry on the film.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\r\n<!-- mf-faq -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}<\/style>\r\n<h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2>\r\n<details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Did a Tu-134 airliner really land on a highway?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Sort of \u2014 for a movie. For the 1974 Soviet-Italian comedy \"Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia,\" an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 jet airliner appeared to land on a public motorway. In reality the \"road\" was a reserve runway disguised with paint and props to look like a highway.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>How was the Tu-134 highway landing filmed?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Filmmakers used a spare runway at the Ulyanovsk flight school, dressing it with road markings and roadside props so it resembled a public motorway. 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