What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
Viktor Belenko Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко , born 15 February 1947) is a former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 'Foxbat' jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. The opportunity to examine the plane up close was an intelligence bonanza for the West. Belenko later became an American aerospace engineer.
Nikolai Borisovich Kulikov Nikolai Borisovich Kulikov (Russian: Куликов, Николай Борисович, April 25, 1953 in Moscow, USSR - August 11, 1979 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine SSR) was a Soviet footballer. Kulikov played for FC Pakhtakor Tashkent as a defender from 1976 to 1979, before he died in a mid-air plane crash in August 1979. He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1979.