PILOT

Marina Raskova

1912 - 1943

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Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (Russian: Мари́на Миха́йловна Раско́ва, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə rɐˈskovə]; née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor to the Soviet's first female navigator. She was the navigator to many record-setting as well as record-breaking flights and the founding and commanding officer of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, which was renamed the 125th M.M. Raskova Borisov Guards Dive Bomber Regiment in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Raskova has received more than 339,164 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Marina Raskova is the 16th most popular pilot (down from 14th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 465th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Marina Raskova ranks 16 out of 71. Before her are Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, Hermann Graf, Chesley Sullenberger, Chuck Yeager, and Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi. After her are Joseph Kittinger, Valery Chkalov, René Fonck, Mathias Rust, Claire Lee Chennault, and Janina Lewandowska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Marina Raskova ranks 87. Before her are Frank Oppenheimer, Hugh Griffith, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, José Ferrer, Michel Debré, and Axel Springer. After her are Nereo Rocco, Lady Bird Johnson, Duško Popov, Feroze Gandhi, Arne Næss, and Princess Deokhye. Among people deceased in 1943, Marina Raskova ranks 52. Before her are Conrad Veidt, Viktor Pavičić, Alexander Schmorell, Lepa Radić, Aurel Stein, and Franz Jägerstätter. After her are Kurt Huber, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, Takeda Sōkaku, R. G. Collingwood, Christoph Probst, and Charlotte Salomon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Raskova ranks 553 out of 3,761. Before her are Nicholas of Japan (1836), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), Sergey Sazonov (1860), Martiros Saryan (1880), Boris Pugo (1937), and Werner Kempf (1886). After her are Natalia Pushkina (1812), Vasily Chapayev (1887), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Mikhail Tomsky (1880), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), and Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Marina Raskova ranks 1. After her are Valery Chkalov (1904), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Nikolai Gastello (1907), Mariya Dolina (1922), Anna Yegorova (1916), and Tatyana Makarova (1920).

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