Валерий Чкалов

(January 20 (February 2) 1904, Vasilevo, Balakhninsky County, Nizhny Novgorod province, Russian Empire - December 15, 1938, Moscow) Soviet test pilot, the brigade commander, Hero of the Soviet Union. The commander of the crew of the aircraft, committed in 1937, the first non-stop flight across the North Pole from Moscow to Vancouver (Washington State).