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Marina Popovich

1931 - 2017

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Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva (Russian: Марина Лаврентьевна Жихорева; formerly Popovich [Попович]; née Vasilyeva [Васильева]; 30 July 1931 – 30 November 2017) was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Popovich has received more than 100,946 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marina Popovich is the 307th most popular engineer, the 1,984th most popular biography from Russia and the 40th most popular Russian Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marina Popovich ranks 307 out of 389. Before her are Frederick Terman, Percy Hobart, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sam Eyde, Guenther Steiner, and Isaac Roberts. After her are Ron Tauranac, Charles Combes, John R. Pierce, Othmar Ammann, Christopher Cockerell, and Jesse Ramsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Marina Popovich ranks 435. Before her are Bob Shaw, Hansjörg Felmy, Barry Foster, Andrija Fuderer, E. C. George Sudarshan, and Jiří Feureisl. After her are Nelly Kaplan, Gilles Perrault, Charles Bassett, Peter Kirby, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, and Naci Erdem. Among people deceased in 2017, Marina Popovich ranks 393. Before her are Hiromi Tsuru, Lil Peep, Catherine Hardy Lavender, Tullio Baraglia, Vladimir Makanin, and Habib Thiam. After her are Károly Makk, Robert Hirsch, Issam Zahreddine, Joy Fleming, Roy Dotrice, and Ivar Aronsson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Popovich ranks 1,984 out of 3,761. Before her are Grigory Rodchenkov (1958), Lyubov Polishchuk (1949), Pyotr Mamonov (1951), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Aleksandr Adabashyan (1945), and Vladimir Makanin (1937). After her are Sergei Lemeshev (1902), Avdotia Istomina (1799), Sergey Gorodetsky (1884), Igor Kvasha (1933), Majit Gafuri (1880), and Vikenty Veresaev (1867).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Marina Popovich ranks 40. Before her are Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Sergey Chaplygin (1869), Mikhail Simonov (1929), Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900), and Pavel Solovyov (1917). After her are Boris Lisunov (1898), Vladimir Barmin (1909), Viktor Kozin (1953), Ivan Artobolevsky (1905), and Anna Kikina (1984).

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