Biography of Chekalov

His father, Pavel Grigorievich, worked as a boiler room in Vasilev state workshops now, the Chkalovskaya shipyard. Courts of the technical fleet were built and repaired here. From the age of seven, Valery went to study at the rural Vasilev elementary school. In the year, at the end of the school, his father sends him to study at the Cherepovets Technical School.

However, Valery failed to finish him. In the year, the school was temporarily closed. Valery returned to Vasilevo, began to work by his father. With the onset of navigation, he entered the work of a stoker on an airplane car. The service in aviation in the year Valery Chkalov worked as a stoker on the Bayan ship on the Volga and then saw the plane for the first time.

After that, he, having quit the ship, went to serve in the Red Army in the same year. He was sent by a combined assembly of aircraft in the 4th Canavinsky Aviation Park in Nizhny Novgorod. In the year, the persistent requests of Chkalov achieves a ticket to the Yegoryevsky Aviation Theoretical School. After its graduation, he was sent to further study at the Borisoglebsky Military Aviation School of pilots, graduated from it in the year.

In the years, he was trained at the Moscow Military Aviation School of Higher aerobatics, and then at the Serpukhov Higher Aviation School of Shooting, Bombing and Air Board.

In June, a military pilot chiro-fighter Chkalov was sent to serve in the Leningrad Red Banner Air Exercise named after Service in the squadron is an important, interesting, albeit restless period in the life of Chkalov. By that time, he had already established himself as a fearless, persistent person. One by one, Chkalov makes risky, daring flights. These flights are tireless.

Chkalov receives disciplinary sanctions, removes from flights. However, these flights of young Chkalov were not reckless and aimless. He was looking for new ways to improve piloting techniques. He sought to take everything he could give from the plane. In the year, he was sent to Moscow as the best pilot of the Leningrad Aviation Equestion to participate in the parade in honor of the anniversary of the October Revolution.

For brilliant flight skills, gratitude was grateful in the order of the People’s Commissar of Defense K. In the year, Chkalov married the Leningrad teacher Olga Orekhova. In March, he was transferred to the service in the Youth of the Bryansk Aviation Squadron, his wife and son Igor remained in Leningrad. In Bryansk, Chkalov had an accident, was accused of air dashing and numerous violations of discipline.

The verdict of the Military Tribunal of the Belarusian Military District of October 30, Chkalov, was convicted under article 17 of paragraph “A” of the Regulation on military crimes and under the article of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR sentenced to one year of imprisonment, and was also dismissed from the Red Army. He did not serve his sentence for long, at the request of Y. Alksnis and K.

Voroshilov in less than a month, the punishment was replaced by the conditional and Chkalov was released from the Bryansk prison. At the beginning of the year, Valery returned to Leningrad to the family. He goes to work in Leningradsky Oswavaham. Over the two years of work at the Research Institute, he made more test flights, having mastered the piloting technique of 30 types of aircraft.

The relocation from an ordinary event turned into the first air parade in the USSR with a span above Red Square. In January, V. Chkalov was assigned to work as a test pilot of the Moscow Aviation Plant named after Together with his senior comrade Alexander Anisimov, he experienced the latest planes-fighters of the X and Biplan and a monoplane of Polikarpov's structure.

The author of the new figures of the highest aerobatics is an ascending corkscrew and a slow barrel. In the spring of the year, Chkalov, Baydukov and Belyakov turned to the government with a proposal to hold such a flight. However, initially the crew was given permission to fly along the route Moscow-Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka. The preparation of the crew and the aircraft for the flight began.

The crew of Chkalov from Moscow to the Far East started on July 20 and lasted 56 hours until landing on the sand mit of the island of UDD in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The total length of the record route was kilometers. In addition, Chkalov was presented with a personal aircraft U-2 is now in the Museum in Chkalovsk. The exceptional importance of this flight for his time says that I.

Stalin personally arrived on August 10 at the Shchelkovo airfield near Moscow to meet the returning plane. In the same year, V. Chkalov and his associates took part in the World Paris Air Exhibition. Chkalov continued to seek permission to perform a flight in the United States, and in May permission was obtained. The start of the Ant Aircraft took place on June 18.

The flight took place in difficult conditions, but on June 20 the plane made a prosperous landing in the city of Vancouver, Washington, USA. The length of the flight was a kilometer. For this flight, the crew was awarded the orders of the Red Banner. At the request of the inhabitants of Vasilyv, their village was renamed Chkalovsk. Stalin personally invited Chkalov to take the post of People's Commissar of the NKVD, but he refused and continued to engage in flying trial work.The death of Chkalov Chkalov died on December 15 during the first test flight on a new fighter and at the central airfield.

The aircraft was refused by the motor when the pilot was already landing. Valery Pavlovich tried, first of all, to save the plane. In addition, he was afraid that the plane would fall on residential buildings. The tragedy was inevitable. Valery Chkalov was buried in Moscow, an urn with his ashes was installed in the Kremlin wall. A commemorative stone was installed near the place of disaster of the Chkalov aircraft.

Chkalov died, but he did a lot in his short life. As a fighter pilot, he introduced his, Chkalovskaya, offensive tactics of air combat in aviation. As a test pilot, he experienced and gave a ticket to life the best fighter aircraft in the world. Finally, two distant non -stop flights committed under his command have forever entered the history of domestic and world aircraft.

The fighter-fighter delivered both the designer Polikarpov and the pilot Chkalov is a lot of trouble. The model was fundamentally new, the plane in the air behaved capriciously, was unstable on the turns, often broke into a corkscrew. But the plane was still put into serial production, and this is the direct merit of V.