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\textit{Yu. V. Chekanov}'s theorem [Funct. Anal. Appl. 30, No. 2, 118-128 (1996); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 30, No. 2, 56-69 (1996; Zbl 0873.58017)] is extended to a wider class of Legendre's manifolds (description in the paper). For a manifold \(M\) let \(\rho_M:J^1M\to T^*M\) denote the projection of the 1-jet space of functions onto the cotangent space of \(M\). Then the following applications of the indicated generalization are obtained. 1. Let \(\Lambda\) be a Legendre submanifold of \(J^1M\). Then \(\rho_M (\Lambda)\) is the immersed Lagrange submanifold of \(T^*M\). A lower bound of the number of selfintersections of \(\rho_M(\Lambda)\) is obtained (Theorem 2.2): 2. The lower bound of the number of double normals of general position immersed closed \(n\)-manifold into the Euclidean \((n+k)\)-space is obtained as \({1\over 2} (B^2+(n-1)B)\) where \(B=\Sigma \dim H_*(M;\mathbb{Z}_2)\) [\textit{F. Takens} and \textit{J. White}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 21, No. 1, 11-17 (1971; Zbl 0228.58007)]. The paper also discusses the sharpness of this lower bound in several examples. A lower bound of the number of double normals of wave fronts is also obtained. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0926.00021].