The size is 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation 450,000. The obverse features a special-issue preprinted government postal stamp with the portraits of Valeriy Chkalov, Georgiy Baidukov and Aleksandr Belyakov, the crew of the ANT-25 monoplane which made the 5,826-mile-long nonstop flight from Moscow to Udd Island (now Chkalov Island) which lasted 56 hrs. 20 min. The route of the flight and a depiction of the ANT-25 airplane are shown on the left side of the obverse.

In excellent, near-mint condition.

The

The size is 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation 450,000. The obverse features a special-issue preprinted government postal stamp with the portraits of Valeriy Chkalov, Georgiy Baidukov and Aleksandr Belyakov, the crew of the ANT-25 monoplane which made the 5,826-mile-long nonstop flight from Moscow to Udd Island (now Chkalov Island) which lasted 56 hrs. 20 min. The route of the flight and a depiction of the ANT-25 airplane are shown on the left side of the obverse.

In excellent, near-mint condition.

The planned destination of this flight was the city of Khabarovsk, but it was unreachable due to weather conditions. After flying over the Sea of Okhotsk at the altitude of 150-300 feet, the terrible visibility forced Chkalov to land on a sand beach of the Udd Island. A local resident took them in for the night. To take off for the return flight, the border guards stationed on the island had to construct a 1,500-ft.-long wooden runway. Of the 9,374 km of the actual flown distance, only 6,000 km were accepted as per the rules of the International Aviation Federation, the length of the straight line from start to finish.
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