Tupolev ANT-25
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The Tupolev ANT-25 was a Soviet long-range experimental aircraft which was also tried as a bomber. First constructed in 1933, it was used by the Soviet Union for a number of record-breaking flights.
RD N025 in flight
ANT-25 in Chkalov Museum, Chkalovsk
Commemorative stamp illustration of the Moscow-San Jacinto transpolar flight
Valery Chkalov
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Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a Russian and Soviet test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Chkalov meets with Joseph Stalin.
Monument to Valery Chkalov in Nizhny Novgorod, 1986