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Marina Raskova

1912 - 1943

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Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (Russian: Мари́на Миха́йловна Раско́ва, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə rɐˈskovə]; née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor to the Soviet Union's first female navigator. She was the navigator to many record-setting as well as record-breaking flights and the founding and commanding officer of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, a women's aviation regiment which was renamed the 125th M.M. Raskova Borisov Guards Dive Bomber Regiment in her honor. Raskova became one of over 800,000 women in the military service, founding three female air regiments, one of which eventually flew over 30,000 sorties in World War II and produced at least 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marina Raskova is the 15th most popular pilot (up from 16th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Russia (up from 553rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Marina Raskova ranks 15 out of 71. Before her are Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, Hermann Graf, and Chuck Yeager. After her are Valery Chkalov, Mathias Rust, Joseph Kittinger, Amy Johnson, René Fonck, and Igor Volk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Marina Raskova ranks 96. Before her are Taiichi Ohno, Princess Deokhye, Lady Bird Johnson, Sohn Kee-chung, Julia Child, and Philibert Tsiranana. After her are Chaïm Perelman, Nereo Rocco, Jacques Ellul, Jiří Trnka, Yuen Siu-tien, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1943, Marina Raskova ranks 54. Before her are Abdelaziz of Morocco, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Vito Cascio Ferro, Aimo Cajander, Ugo Cavallero, and Viktor Pavičić. After her are Hans Jeschonnek, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, Franz Jägerstätter, Conrad Veidt, Nicholas J. Spykman, and R. G. Collingwood.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Raskova ranks 537 out of 3,761. Before her are Ales Bialiatski (1962), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Mikhail Fradkov (1950), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), and Nicholas of Japan (1836). After her are Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819), Joseph M. Schenck (1876), Nina Kulagina (1926), and Sergei Krikalev (1958).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Marina Raskova ranks 1. After her are Valery Chkalov (1904), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Nikolai Gastello (1907), Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Anna Yegorova (1916), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Mariya Dolina (1922), and Tatyana Makarova (1920).

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