Mirek
24 Hurricanes and 24 pilots (12 from 81 Sqn and 12 from 134 Sqn) took off from HMS Argus and flew to Veanga.
The other 16? Hurricanes were delivered by the first convoy - Operation Dervish - SSLlanstephen Castle was the flagship and 5 other merchantmen.
Not only were 15 Hurricanes assembled (the equipment officer F/Lt Gittins) was also given a Soviet Award. Cannot recall the name - Order of Kuznetsov?
Besides the Hurricanes, P40C/Tomahawk IIB's were assembled by an RAf team at Keg Ostrov and test flown by Lt Zemke and Lt Allison. (Zemke was Hub Zemke - later leader of 56FG Zemke's wolfpack).
HMS Argus did not sail to Archangel but the convoy did. It had other supplies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervish_Convoy
regards
Mark
PS - Yes, I have all 39 Hurricanes and 95% of the RAF serials /Soviet numbers. Only three I believe were not given Soviet numbers.