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Viktor Talalikhin

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Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Талалихин; 18 September 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant and aviator during the Winter War and World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union, among the first to perform aerial ramming at night. Talalikhin became a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in the late 1930s, flying the Polikarpov I-153 during the Winter War. He served in the air defense of Moscow during World War II with an aviation regiment of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Talalikhin has received more than 28,532 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Viktor Talalikhin is the 56th most popular pilot (down from 55th in 2019), the 1,970th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,864th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Pilot.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 56 out of 71. Before him are Jerrie Cobb, Natalya Meklin, Anna Yegorova, Lotfia Elnadi, Tatyana Makarova, and Gregorio Fuentes. After him are Mikhail Gromov, Stasys Girėnas, Maryse Bastié, Harry Cobby, Wally Funk, and Adrienne Bolland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 232. Before him are Anne Stine Ingstad, Stubby Kaye, Gunnar Sønsteby, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, René Rémond, and Noronha. After him are Balasaraswati, Don McNeill, Enrique Tierno Galván, Luciano Emmer, Artur Brauner, and Horacio Casarín.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 1,970 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Tanayev (1945), Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805), Leonid Sedov (1907), Nikolai Panin (1872), Alexander Ablesimov (1742), and Yuri Milner (1961). After him are Gavriil Popov (1904), Vasily Andreyev (1861), Maria Yermolova (1853), Mark Rakita (1938), Mikhail Gromov (1899), and Musa Gareyev (1922).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 13. Before him are Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Nikolai Gastello (1907), Mariya Dolina (1922), Anna Yegorova (1916), and Tatyana Makarova (1920). After him are Mikhail Gromov (1899), and Lydia Zvereva (1890).

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