Among the stream of meetings, conversations, and vivid impressions, I especially remember the meeting with the director of the museum. Isabella Miller J. Porter, vice-president of the Historical Society L. Thornquist, a participant in shuttle flights between airfields of England and the USSR during the war, Judge V. Christiansen, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Laura McKinney, who wrote wonderful poems especially for us.


We're leaving Sitka. Flares are lit, farewell handshakes, and Wishes for a happy voyage. Yes, everything has an end, and on August 16, passing by the house of the mayor of the city, J. Dapsevich, the yachts gave a farewell salute with rockets. The road home across the ocean lay ahead, and it turned out to be more difficult to pass.


On August 20, the first serious incident occurred. Commander Bering's radio operator, S. Gubik, scalded his leg with boiling water. I had to transfer him to a more comfortable Nadezhda and, just in case, request permission to enter the port of Kodiak. Permission was granted, moreover, we were advised, if necessary, to call a US Coast Guard helicopter to evacuate the patient. The situation worsened due to an erroneous maneuver by the captain of the Commander Bering, as a result of which the yachts dispersed over a hundred miles away, losing radio contact. But, fortunately, everything worked out, communication between the yachts was restored, and on August 29, our small squadron entered Dutch Harbor.


We replenished our water, fuel, and food supplies, and on August 31, in the evening, we began preparing to leave. But a pleasant surprise awaited us — a delegation from the mayor of Fairbanks, the "golden heart of Alaska," arrived to meet with the crews. The delegation brought a message from Mayor J. Helms, who spoke about the long-standing roots of cooperation between Alaska and our Far East. During the war, Fairbanks was a transshipment base for aircraft transportation to the Soviet Union and for the delivery of Lend-Lease goods. The delegation also brought letters from Fairbanks schoolchildren to their Soviet peers, photo albums, badges, and souvenirs.


This was the last meeting with Alaska residents, US citizens. From meeting to meeting, the conviction grew and grew stronger that the mistrust and hostility that had been planted for decades had no future, that people were tired of seeing every person "on the other side" as a potential enemy. But we have also seen firsthand that the principles of humanism, mutual understanding and cooperation, proclaimed from high rostrums, will become reality only when people believe in them. The best way to do this is through face—to-face meetings.


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