MILITARY PERSONNEL

Rufina Gasheva

1921 - 2012

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Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva (Russian: Руфина Сергеевна Гашева; 14 October 1921 – 1 May 2012) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rufina Gasheva has received more than 45,330 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Rufina Gasheva is the 1,884th most popular military personnel (down from 1,546th in 2019), the 2,130th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,824th in 2019) and the 151st most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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  • 45.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rufina Gasheva ranks 1,884 out of 2,058. Before her are Eugene Bullard, Oliver Leese, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Raymond T. Odierno, Robert L. Eichelberger, and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey. After her are Edmund Kirby Smith, Olha Ilkiv, Billy Mitchell, Augustin Bizimungu, Henning von Holtzendorff, and Chesty Puller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Rufina Gasheva ranks 369. Before her are Mohammad Mohammadullah, Ettore Chimeri, Stan Mortensen, William Alston, Susan Peters, and Cliff Bourland. After her are Paul Barth, Lloyd Bentsen, Mamie Till, Petter Hugsted, Regina Bianchi, and Pancho Segura. Among people deceased in 2012, Rufina Gasheva ranks 358. Before her are William Grut, Oscar Rossi, Sergey Nikolsky, András Szente, Lyudmila Kasatkina, and Barbara Ann Scott. After her are Gustaf Jansson, Rosy Varte, Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Aldo Maldera, Théophile Abega, and Steve Franken.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Rufina Gasheva ranks 2,130 out of 3,761. Before her are Nikolay Umov (1846), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), and Gombojab Tsybikov (1873). After her are Klara Guseva (1937), Matvey Gusev (1826), Manfred Schaefer (1943), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), German Sveshnikov (1937), and Maxim Galkin (1976).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Rufina Gasheva ranks 151. Before her are Mariya Polivanova (1922), Musa Gareyev (1922), Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913), Zhanna Yorkina (1939), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), and Mariya Smirnova (1920). After her are Oleg Mityaev (1974), Valeriya Gnarovskaya (1923), Isa Munayev (1965), Leonid Khabarov (1947), Ruslan Gelayev (1964), and Igor Sergun (1957).

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