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Marina Popovich

1931 - 2017

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Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva (Russian: Марина Лаврентьевна Жихорева; formerly Popovich [Попович]; née Vasilyeva [Васильева]; 30 July 1931 – 30 November 2017) was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as "Madame MiG", for her work in the Soviet fighter, she set more than one hundred aviation world records on over 40 types of aircraft over her career. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marina Popovich is the 314th most popular engineer (down from 307th in 2019), the 2,005th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,984th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marina Popovich ranks 314 out of 389. Before her are Mal Evans, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Robert H. Dennard, Peter Schreyer, K. Eric Drexler, and Ralph Bagnold. After her are Geoffrey de Havilland, Peter Chen, Sidney Darlington, Charles Combes, Preston Tucker, and Yuri Artsutanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Marina Popovich ranks 457. Before her are Zoltán Latinovits, Nadezhda Konyayeva, Müzahir Sille, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, and Sonny Clark. After her are Pierre Chambon, Mitzi Gaynor, Marshall Applewhite, Norman Mineta, Virginia McKenna, and Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton. Among people deceased in 2017, Marina Popovich ranks 421. Before her are Catherine Hardy Lavender, Sotsha Dlamini, Curt Lowens, Tullio Baraglia, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Pierluigi Chicca. After her are Jared Martin, Joseph Bologna, Shyla Stylez, Tore Eriksson, Bano Qudsia, and Martin McGuinness.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Popovich ranks 2,005 out of 3,761. Before her are Anatoly Krutikov (1933), Aleksandr Ivanov (1928), Erast Garin (1902), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Boris Klyuyev (1944), and Karandash (1901). After her are Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Sainkho Namtchylak (1957), Yuliya Borisova (1925), Giorgi Shengelaia (1937), Andriy Yarmolenko (1989), and Vasily Andreyev (1861).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Marina Popovich ranks 40. Before her are Nikolay Makarov (1914), Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900), Viktor Kozin (1953), Boris Lisunov (1898), Georgy Babakin (1914), and Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902). After her are Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Pavel Solovyov (1917), Vladimir Barmin (1909), Ivan Artobolevsky (1905), and Anna Kikina (1984).

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