Valery Chkalov - Commemoration

Commemoration

The village of Vasilyevo where Chkalov was born is now the town of Chkalovsk (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast). The city of Orenburg bore the name Chkalov from 1938 to 1957. There used to be a Chkalov Street in Moscow (part of Moscow's Garden Ring), now renamed Zemlyanoy Val, there still exist its namesakes in Nizhny Novgorod and several other Russian cities. A street in Vancouver, Washington has borne the name Chkalov Drive since the 1970s (Google map).

A Chapayev class cruiser was named Chkalov but was renamed Komsomolets in 1958.

The metro rail systems of Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod each have a Chkalovskaya station. Yekaterinburg Metro is expected to have one by 2010 as well.