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Legendary Soviet Pilot Valery Chkalov
Legendary Soviet Pilot Valery Chkalov
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Valery Chkalov was born today 113 years ago. He conducted several record flights, the most memorable of which was in June 1937, when he became the first man to... 02.02.2017, Sputnik International
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Legendary Soviet Pilot Valery Chkalov
14:00 GMT 02.02.2017 (Updated: 19:29 GMT 19.10.2022) Valery Chkalov was born today 113 years ago. He conducted several record flights, the most memorable of which was in June 1937, when he became the first man to complete a non-stop flight from Moscow, USSR to Vancouver, WA, US through the North Pole. The 9,000-kilometer-long air route took him more than 63 hours.
At age 34, Chkalov died during the first test flight on the Polikarpov I-180 Soviet fighter prototype. To commemorate the Hero of the Soviet Union, the village of Vasilyevo, where Chkalov was born, was named in his honor — now, it is the town of Chkalovsk in Nizhny Novgorod Region.
