Test pilot Valery Pavlovich Chkalov is warmly welcomed by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin leader of the Soviet Union and members of the government of the USSR at the aerodrome in Moscow after retrurning from Udd Island (now named Chkalov Island after he piloted the Antonov ANT-25 plane on July 20, 1936 from Moscow to the Island). 1936 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies