Chkalov


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Chka·lov

 (chə-kä′ləf, chkä′-)
See Orenburg.

Chkalov

(Russian ˈtʃkaləf)
n
(Placename) the former name (1938–57) of Orenburg

O•ren•burg

(ˈɔr ənˌbɜrg, ˈoʊr-)

n.
a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River. 547,000. Formerly, Chkalov.
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And, of course, Valery Chkalov and two other Soviet aviators landed here on June 20, 1937, after a 63-hour flight over the top of the world.
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It is not masculinization tout court, but a growing insistence in the 1930s on a kind of gender consistency--manly men, perky girls--that more adequately accounts for a shift that produces such epic figures as Chapaev and Chkalov, on the one hand, and, on the other, the necessary but bitter-sweet domestication of Marianna Bazhan (Tractor Drivers).
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