V.P.Chkalov Memorial Museum

Valery Chkalov is a favorite of the whole world, Yuri Gagarin of his time. The state has set the maximum goal - to fly above all, faster than all, farthest. Next to all flew Chkalov - through the North Pole reached America, without transfer and refueling. Helped him in this faithful crew - Alexander Belyakov and Georgy Baidukov. This flight caused a real shock in the world, which can only be compared with the reaction to the first human flight into space a quarter of a century later. The seventy-fiveth anniversary of the legendary flight is dedicated to the next edition of the program “Made in the USSR”.

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov made a significant contribution to the development of domestic aviation. He had his own views on the role of a fighter in air combat, his own ideas about the qualities of a fighter pilot. He set his own standards of behavior in the air, opened up new possibilities of flight thanks to analytical intelligence and talent. For the first time in the world, he studied and practiced many aerobatics, which later became used in air combat.

Chkalov owns the authorship of such figures as an ascending corkscrew, a slow barrel, an exit from the peak with a climb in an inverted flight. He creatively developed the use of various forms of combination of fire and maneuver. Valery Pavlovich was the first pilot to shoot accurately at air targets at any position of the aircraft and, in particular, in an inverted flight. He owns the idea of ramming the enemy with an airplane propeller. Much has been done to develop vertical combat tactics.

Chkalov made a significant contribution to the development of domestic aviation and as a test pilot. Of the 14 years of his aviation activity, 8 were given to test work, which he was engaged in first at the Moscow Research and Test Institute, and then at the Menzhinsky Aviation Plant. Over the years, 70 different aircraft designs have passed through his hands. Valery Pavlovich, being the chief pilot of the remarkable aircraft designer N.N. Polikarpov, tested by that time the world's best fighters I-15, I-16.

World fame brought Chkalov his long-distance nonstop flights on the routes Moscow - Far East and Moscow - North Pole - United States of America, made on the aircraft "ANT-25".

They entered the history of not only domestic, but also world aviation.

Valery Pavlovich with all his heart loved his homeland, his people. The safety of his fatherland was first of all his thought in carrying out his daring experiments. He thought about his homeland during the hours of flights on long routes.

Today the memory of the outstanding pilot, his daring exploits is stored in the Memorial Museum of V.P. Chkalov. The basis of the exposition is photographs, documents, personal belongings of V.P. Chkalov, everything related to the life and work of Chkalov – a man and Chkalov – a famous pilot.