Презентация, доклад на тему Наш земляк - В.П.Чкалов

of the Soviet Union

town of Vasilyevo, near Nizhni Novgorod, the son of a boiler maker. His mother died when he was six years old. Chkalov studied in the technical school in Cherepovets but later returned to work as an apprentice with his father and as a stoker on river boats. He saw his first plane in 1919 and decided to join the Red Army's air force. He trained as a pilot and graduated in 1924 joining a fighter squadron. Chkalov married Olga Orekhova, a schoolteacher from Leningrad, in 1927. In the early 1930s he became a test pilot.

Valery himself, 1937

and colleague, Georgy Baydukov, suggested the idea of a non-stop transpolar flight to the United States. Chkalov conceded after a minor hesitation, and in the spring of 1936 the crew, consisting of Chkalov, Baydukov and Aleksandr Belyakov, the navigator, requested permission from the Soviet authorities to fulfill their project. The authorities, however, only approved a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East. On 20 July 1936, Chkalov’s team set out on their legendary flight to the Far East, and by 22 July after flying 5,825 miles in 56 hours in the heaviest weather conditions, Chkalov landed his ANT-25 monoplane on Udd Island on the eastern coast of the Soviet Union, later renamed Chkalov.

and his legendary crew, co-pilot Georgy Baidukov and navigator Aleksandr Belyakov, finally performed the first ever non-stop transpolar flight to the United States, successfully ending it at Pearson Airfield in Vancouver, Washington State. After a 63-hour flight, covering a total distance of 5,288 miles.

of ANT-25 crew, 1937

vacation in his home village, Chkalov was urgently called in to test Polikarpov’s I-180 fighter. On 15 December, in the middle of the test flight, the fighter’s engine stopped working. Chkalov didn’t leave the aircraft, but did his best to preserve it, steering the burning plane away from some apartment buildings. The plane crashed burying Chkalov under the rubble.
Valery Chkalov was buried in Moscow, with the urn with his ashes placed in the Kremlin wall. His name will live forever in the history of world aviation.

route of the Moscow to Vancouver flight.

Chkalov stair