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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This article outlines some of the rigid and semi-rigid airships used in or built in Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1812, desiring to attack Napolean's army during the French invasion of Russia, Alexander I commissioned the German engineer Leppig to build a large fish-shaped airship propelled by fins the craft inflated but became damaged and failed to lift off. Like other nations in the early 20th century, Russia began researching and developing its own airships. Russia also purchased airships from the French and then from the German firm Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft, and in the 1920s and 1930s built others such as the USSR-V5 and the SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM with help from the Italian Umberto Nobile. Much of Soviet airship development remains obscure; the proclaimed rigid Zeppelin -style airships announced in the five year plans were probably pure propaganda while some may have been built.

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