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Natalya Meklin

1922 - 2005

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Natalya Fyodorovna Kravtsova née Meklin (Russian: Наталья Фёдоровна Меклин; 8 September 1922 – 5 June 2005) was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, one of the three women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The regiment later came to be known as the "Night Witches" by German targets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natalya Meklin has received more than 122,790 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Natalya Meklin is the 51st most popular pilot (down from 45th in 2019), the 734th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Natalya Meklin ranks 51 out of 71Before her are Jacqueline Cochran, Maguba Syrtlanova, Nikolai Gastello, Mariya Dolina, Gotthard Handrick, and Jerrie Cobb. After her are Anna Yegorova, Lotfia Elnadi, Tatyana Makarova, Gregorio Fuentes, Viktor Talalikhin, and Mikhail Gromov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Natalya Meklin ranks 288Before her are Félix Loustau, Étienne Gailly, Karl-Erik Nilsson, Damon Knight, Stig Sundqvist, and Ester Mägi. After her are Rui Campos, Sid Caesar, Blaga Aleksova, Stanislav Rostotsky, Rory Calhoun, and Yao Lee. Among people deceased in 2005, Natalya Meklin ranks 231Before her are Julián Marías, Maurice Lafont, Colette Besson, Eugenia Charles, Giuseppe Caprio, and Vladimir Toporov. After her are George Gerbner, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Shirley Chisholm, Klara Luchko, Brock Peters, and Ivan Kolev.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Natalya Meklin ranks 734 out of 1,365Before her are Vladimir Maslachenko (1936), Zellig Harris (1909), Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Zinaida Turchyna (1946), and Konstantin Lopushansky (1947). After her are Vasyl Barvinsky (1888), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Stanisław Zaremba (1863), Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891), Dmitry Polyansky (1917), and Yuriy Fedkovych (1834).

Among PILOTS In Ukraine

Among pilots born in Ukraine, Natalya Meklin ranks 5Before her are Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Janina Lewandowska (1908), Igor Volk (1937), and Polina Osipenko (1907).