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Antonina Makarova

1920 - 1979

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Antonina Makarovna Makarova (née Panfilova, Ginsburg by marriage, Russian: Антонина Макаровна Макарова, 1 March 1920 – 11 August 1979) was a Soviet war criminal and mass murderer who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. From 1942 to 1943, she shot dead hundreds of Soviet partisans and their family members using a Russian M1910 Maxim machine gun. Makarova was tentatively identified by the Soviet KGB in 1976, and observed for a year before being arrested in 1978. Makarova was convicted of treason, sentenced to death, and executed in 1979. She was known as "Tonka the Machine-Gun Girl". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonina Makarova is the 1,506th most popular military personnel (up from 1,588th in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,416th in 2019) and the 118th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Antonina Makarova ranks 1,506 out of 2,058. Before her are Endel Puusepp, Moritz von Auffenberg, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Alexander Kutepov, Shōji Nishimura, and Neoptolemus II of Epirus. After her are Maximilian von Edelsheim, Mitrofan Nedelin, Johann von Tiefen, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Max Horton, and Vang Pao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Antonina Makarova ranks 234. Before her are William Conrad, Tony Randall, Olga Orozco, Roberto M. Levingston, Hilda Bernard, and Franjo Mihalić. After her are John Dall, Reginald Rose, Georges Marchal, Fons Rademakers, Hilmar Baunsgaard, and Nikolai Grinko. Among people deceased in 1979, Antonina Makarova ranks 148. Before her are Ludwig Renn, Ted Cassidy, Henri Anspach, Evald Ilyenkov, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Joan Blondell. After her are Zeppo Marx, Alfred Deller, Sigrid Fick, Catherine Hessling, Imre Harangi, and John Wright.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Antonina Makarova ranks 1,304 out of 3,761. Before her are Endel Puusepp (1909), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Alexander Kutepov (1882), Jürgen Moser (1928), and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693). After her are Sophie Liebknecht (1884), Joseph Bové (1784), Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Andreï Makine (1957), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), and Abram Arkhipov (1862).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Antonina Makarova ranks 118. Before her are Natalya Kovshova (1920), Dmitry Karbyshev (1880), Pavel Chichagov (1767), Oleg Salyukov (1955), Endel Puusepp (1909), and Alexander Kutepov (1882). After her are Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Alexander Rodimtsev (1905), Viktor Zolotov (1954), Filipp Oktyabrsky (1899), Yevfimiy Putyatin (1803), and Vasily Gordov (1896).

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