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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Polina Gelman

1919 - 2005

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Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Polina Gelman has received more than 61,165 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Polina Gelman is the 1,114th most popular military personnel (up from 1,227th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 459th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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  • 61k

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  • 52.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Polina Gelman ranks 1,114 out of 1,468Before her are Ignacio Allende, Ziba Ganiyeva, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Vitalian, Doris Miller, and Ryszard Kukliński. After her are François de Créquy, George Dewey, Charles Robert Jenkins, Abdul Fatah Younis, Adherbal, and Neoptolemus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Polina Gelman ranks 126Before her are Mad Mike Hoare, Abdirashid Shermarke, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, G. E. M. Anscombe, Robert Stack, and Doris Miller. After her are Hermann Bondi, Kathleen Freeman, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Anne Buydens, Joan Brossa, and Isaac Boleslavsky. Among people deceased in 2005, Polina Gelman ranks 117Before her are Jimmy Smith, Lazar Berman, James Doohan, Vizma Belševica, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, and Ronald Golias. After her are Hermann Bondi, Andre Norton, Jair da Rosa Pinto, Andrea Dworkin, Svatopluk Pluskal, and Michalina Wisłocka.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Polina Gelman ranks 383 out of 1,083Before her are Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Anatoly Rybakov (1911), Stanisław Maczek (1892), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Anna Sten (1908), and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938). After her are Anna Bilińska (1854), Maria Prymachenko (1908), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Oleh Protasov (1964), and Pavel Rybalko (1894).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Polina Gelman ranks 28Before her are Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Alexander Matrosov (1924), Nadezhda Durova (1783), Grigory Shtern (1900), and Stanisław Maczek (1892). After her are Pavel Rybalko (1894), Nikolai Linevich (1839), Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), Georgi Todorov (1858), Nikolay Shchors (1895), and Franciszek Kleeberg (1888).