14 Mar 2017 — Most crazy escapes from USSR ... Desperate, Kurilov devised a plan: he would take a trip on a Soviet cruise liner, and escape. ... Liliana Gasinskaya, 18, was a crew member on board the Leonid Sobinov, a Soviet cruise ship ...
2 Jun 1989 — In 1963, Yuri A. Vetokhin tried to swim to freedom, but the swift current of the Black Sea forced him to turn back. The second time he made the ...