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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 316,533 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Marina Raskova is the 14th most popular pilot, the 466th most popular biography from Russia (down from 437th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Pilot.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Marina Raskova ranks 14 out of 48. Before her are Ernst Udet, Francis Gary Powers, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Chesley Sullenberger, Ivan Kozhedub, and Hermann Graf. After her are Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Chuck Yeager, Valery Chkalov, Mathias Rust, René Fonck, and Joseph Kittinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Marina Raskova ranks 73. Before her are Herbert C. Brown, Pat Nixon, Julia Child, Ivan Yakubovsky, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, and Abbé Pierre. After her are Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Yuen Siu-tien, Barbara W. Tuchman, Michel Debré, A. E. van Vogt, and Lady Bird Johnson. Among people deceased in 1943, Marina Raskova ranks 41. Before her are Hans Scholl, Gustav Vigeland, André Antoine, Aurel Stein, Nicholas J. Spykman, and Ugo Cavallero. After her are Jane Avril, Pavel Milyukov, Franz Oppenheimer, Hans Jeschonnek, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, and Ernst Linder.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Raskova ranks 466 out of 3,262. Before her are Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Vera Zasulich (1849), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), and Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097). After her are Valery Bykovsky (1934), Alexei Navalny (1976), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), and Vladimir Bukovsky (1942).

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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), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Mariya Dolina (1922), Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Anna Yegorova (1916), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), and Viktor Talalikhin (1918).

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