they are not not indifferent compatriots evgeny golovanov maksim belikov and yury krivoshef ntv mariupolin trouble donetsk people 's republic travelers fyodor konyukhov and ivan menyailo today set a world record for the distance of flight in a hot air balloon at night they landed at the airport in hattang. the capital of polar aviation, having covered more than 2,500 km, thereby perished the achievement of the japanese pilots of the ninety-fourth expedition. on the largest balloon in the history of russia, its volume is 12,000 km. took start on friday in the murmansk region pilots. we crossed the arkhangelsk region, the nenets and yamalo-nenets autonomous regions, a and the krasnoyarsk territory, the speed of the ball sometimes exceeded 100 km / h. for the first time, a flight on a thermal growth from an open basket passed over the two seas of the arctic ocean, the barents and kara, the temperature in the basket dropped to -30 by the pilot. i had to deal with the icing of the shell. now the world records for the distance and duration of a non-stop flight in a hot air balloon belong to ru