This TyumenAviaTrans Mil Mi-26T was seen near Zagreb's Pleso Airport while on contract to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) which was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in former Yugoslavia, formed in Feb. 1992. Skylink of Canada hired civil contract aircrews to support UN units in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia and serve Sarajevo. The Mi-26 was use to airlift supplies to remote bases and large metal shipping containers installed by the UN as observation posts along the new borders. The high time crew previously flew in Siberian oil fields. Later to UTAir.

First visit to Malta by a Mil Mi-26.

Seen during local WWII victory celebrations.

Wearing United Nations markings, with the full reg. numbers on the tail and the code UN-94 behind the cockpit.

Relief effort in the wake of the devastating 8 October 2005 earthquake in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. Rostvertol in Rostov-on-Don is the manufacturer of the Mi-26. Photo by: Jessica Barry / International Committee of the Red Cross

Aeroflot and Rostvertol titles.

3 of these massive helicopters were present in the yard of ABN Transport RA-06021 RA-06032 RA-06041

This HUGE Mi-26 was once delivered as CCCP-06181 to MAP MVZ im. Milya in 1990 and was originally built for the Iraqi Army. After use in Sweden as RA-06181 with Mi-Avia from Borås in basic Aeroflot colors and additional 'Osterman Sweden' and 'Vattenfall' titles, during the mid-ninetees, the helicopter was transferred to TyumenAviaTrans in 2000 and to UTair in 2003. From mid-2003, UTAir leased the Mi-26 to the United Nations for operations over Africa. Mid-2019, it was seen stored at Tyumen-Plekhanovo in Russia, awaiting overhaul.

A giant on the northern platform of Kandahar. It's incredible that these huge and slow moving helicopters could survive in a high threat environment of Afghanistan. There were fighter jets are manoeuvring at low level to the max to prevent being shot by Taliban, these Mi-26s are just a sitting duck and just fly...

This is what you call a real helo !! When taking off, it is even more impressive.............

Used at this time by UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia).