 Nyora mberi kuti ndima iyi - On 28 June 1937 Kokkinaki akabhururuka dzeraundi Moscow Sevastopol Sverdlovsk Moscow nzira, kure 5018 km, ane DB-3, kuisa zvinyorwa zvose nokukurumidza pa 5000 km siyana pamwe median nokukurumidza 325 km h uye siyana pamusoro dzeraundi nzira. Iyi ndege yakateverwa mwedzi mitatu gare gare ne4000 km Moscow Baku Moscow nzira. Musi wa27-28 Chikumi 1938, ari mungarava yeTsKB-30 yakashandurwa yakanzi Moskva, aine A.M. Bryandinskiy semutyairi wake, Kokkinaki akabhururuka kubva kuMoscow kuenda kuSpassk-Dalny muSoviet Far East, achifukidza chinhambwe chemakiromita 7,580 mu24 h 36 min, kunyanya pakukwirira kwemamita 7000, aine avhareji yekumhanya kwemakiromita 307 awa. Nokuda kwechiito ichi, akapiwa zita rokuti Hero of the Soviet Union musi wa 17 July. Musi waApril 28, 1939, pamwe chete naMikhail Kh. Gordienko semubatsiri wemutyairi, akaedza kupfuudza chiitiko ichi nekuita ndege isingamire kumabvazuva-kumadokero kweAtlantic kubva kuMoscow kuenda kuNew York City, kuti iwirirane nekuvhurwa kwe Nyika Yemangwana World Fair. Zvisinei, nemhaka yokusangana nemamiriro okunze akaipa, ndege yakamanikidzwa kumhara paMiscou Island muNew Brunswick, Canada chinyorwa chemagazini yeTIME. Kusvika nguva pfupi pashure porufu rwaValery Chkalov, uye nehondo yakanga ichiswedera pedyo, uku kukundikana kwakaziviswa zvikuru kwakaratidzira mugumo wenhambo dzendege dzeArctic dzeSoviet dzomuma1930. Pasinei nokukundikana kusvika kwake kwokutanga kuenda, iye achiri akafukidza chinhambwe chemakiromita 8.000 muna 22 h 56 min, paavhareji nokukurumidza 348 km h, uye kubva 1959, nzira akashandisa Moscow- Novgorod Helsinki Trondheim Iceland Cape Farewell Miscou Island rinoshandiswa nokuda dzose ndege pakati New York uye Moscow. Muna 1965, akaremekedzwa neInternational Air Transport Association nechishongo chedhaimondi chewind rose nokuda kwokuwana kwake nzira pfupi zvikurusa yokufamba nendege pakati peEurope neAmerica. 