Kura (Caspian Sea) emptying into the Caspian Sea at Neftçala. Most of the Kura River runs in the broad and deep valley between the Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus mountains, and the major tributary, the Aras, drains most of the southern Caucasus and the mountain ranges of the extreme northern Middle East. The entirety of Armenia and most of Azerbaijan are drained by the Kura River, but the Kura does not pass through Armenia at all. Also in the Kura watershed are Turkey, Georgia, and a bit of northern Iran. Most of the elevation change in the river occurs within the first .
Caspian Sea Monster prior to the first flight a bottle of champagne was broken against its nose, a tradition for the first voyage of a boat. On June 22, 1966, the completed KM began transportation to the testing grounds in the Caspian Sea near the town of Kaspiysk. It was transported from Gorky along the Volga in secret, covered in camouflage and moved along the river at night. The aircraft's first flight was on October 16, 1966, performed by V. Loginov and Rostislav Alexeyev himself, which was very unusual as most Soviet aircraft designers never piloted their own creations. All the works were