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Chkalov (disambiguation)
Valery Chkalov (1904–1938) was a Soviet aircraft test pilot.
Chkalov may also refer to:
- Chkalov (Tashkent Metro), now named Do‘stlik
- Chkalov, Armenia
- Chkalov, Allaikhovsky District, Sakha Republic, a village in Russia
- Chkalov, Khangalassky District, Sakha Republic, a village in Russia
- Chkalov, Nyurbinsky District, Sakha Republic, a village in Russia
- Chkalov, Tajikistan
- Chkalov Island, in the Sea of Okhotsk
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Orenburg, named Chkalov from 1938 to 1957
- Orenburg Oblast, formerly Chkalov Oblast
Usage examples of "chkalov".
At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.
The next day they flew south to Chkalov, where they stayed in a hotel and were taken to the opera to Eugene Onegin.