As the Milwaukee Sentinel reported on October 29, 1929:
The four flyers of the Russian plane, "Land of the Soviets", were greeted Monday by Henry Ford after their arrival from Chicago at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. The automobile manufacturer congratulated them on their achievement in conquering the storms of the northern Pacific ocean and placed the facilities of his airport at their disposal.
The Soviet airmen were guests of the engineering department of the Ford Motor Company at a luncheon in the engineering laboratories.
Monday it was announced they would continue the tourney to New York Wednesday morning. Meanwhile they will be feted by various Slavish organizations of Detroit. They will be presented with ten farm tractors which will be shipped to Russia to be used in cultivating the soil of the soviet union.
More than 5,000 persons were at the airport when the plane arrived.
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