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1 Rouble Valery Chkalov
| Issuer | Soviet Union (Russia) |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК ОДИН РУБЛЬ |
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| Reverse lettering | ЧКАЛОВ В.П. 1904 1974 |
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Valery Chkalov completed the first non-stop transpolar flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington in June 1937, covering over 9,000 kilometers in 63 hours alongside co-pilots Georgy Baidukov and Alexander Belyakov. Stalin personally championed Chkalov as a national hero, and the timing of his commemorative rouble — issued well after his death in a 1938 test flight crash — reflects the Soviet state's careful management of heroic mythology long past the fact.