To the Crew of the airplane "Rodina"

Comrades V. Grizodubova, P. Osipenko, M. Raskova

We warmly congratulate you on the successful and splendid completion of the nonstop flight Moscow -- Far East.

Your heroic flight, covering 6,450 kilometers along the route and 5,947 kilometers in a straight line over the course of 26 hours and 29 minutes, represents an international women's record both in a straight line and along a broken line.

Your courage, composure, and superb flying skill, demonstrated under the most difficult conditions of the journey and landing, inspire the admiration of the entire Soviet people.

We are proud of you and from the bottom of our hearts shake your hands.

On behalf of the CC VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

I. STALIN, V. MOLOTOV

Pravda. September 8, 1938.