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Nikolai Kamanin

1908 - 1982

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Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island. In World War II he successfully commanded an air brigade, air division, and air corps, reaching the rank of Airforce Colonel General and Air Army commander after the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Kamanin has received more than 83,686 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nikolai Kamanin is the 44th most popular pilot (up from 46th in 2019), the 1,560th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,505th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 44 out of 71. Before him are Jadwiga Piłsudska, Bessie Coleman, Touria Chaoui, Jacqueline Auriol, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, and Steponas Darius. After him are Jacqueline Cochran, Maguba Syrtlanova, Nikolai Gastello, Mariya Dolina, Gotthard Handrick, and Jerrie Cobb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 235. Before him are Tullio Pinelli, Helen Jacobs, Francesco Camusso, Eddie Tolan, Milton Berle, and Hugo Distler. After him are Jules Vandooren, Eugen Suchoň, Mohammad Natsir, Jagjivan Ram, Winston Graham, and Władysław Raginis. Among people deceased in 1982, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 173. Before him are Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Juan O'Gorman, Stanisław Ostrowski, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fernando Lamas, and Allen Woodring. After him are Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Raghunath Murmu, Palden Thondup Namgyal, Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Havemann, and Boris Andreyev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 1,560 out of 3,761. Before him are Natalya Seleznyova (1945), Sophie Liebknecht (1884), Yuriy Voynov (1931), Klara Rumyanova (1929), Vladimir Lisin (1956), and Alexander Gradsky (1949). After him are Marfa Apraksina (1664), Veijo Meri (1928), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Nikolay Ilminsky (1822), Vladimir Krutov (1960), and Valery Afanassiev (1947).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 7. Before him are Marina Raskova (1912), Valery Chkalov (1904), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), and Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904). After him are Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Nikolai Gastello (1907), Mariya Dolina (1922), Anna Yegorova (1916), Tatyana Makarova (1920), and Viktor Talalikhin (1918).

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