MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nadezhda Popova

1921 - 2013

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Nadezhda Vasilyevna Popova (Russian: Наде́жда Васи́льевна Попо́ва, Ukrainian: Надія Василівна Попова; 17 December 1921 – 8 July 2013) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment during the Second World War who achieved significant domestic publicity after completing 18 bombing sorties in one night with navigator Yekaterina Ryabova. Awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for completing 737 sorties, she was featured on the cover of Komsomolskaya Pravda and in many other major Soviet publications during the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadezhda Popova is the 1,693rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,754th in 2019), the 1,578th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,715th in 2019) and the 128th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nadezhda Popova ranks 1,693 out of 2,058. Before her are Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Hans von Rosen, Maha Bandula, Charles Warren, Oskar Gripenberg, and George Anson, 1st Baron Anson. After her are Karl Decker, Valentín González, Arnold Meri, Semyon Bogdanov, Dmitry Senyavin, and Gnaeus Servilius Geminus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Nadezhda Popova ranks 281. Before her are Ottavio Missoni, Carlo Parola, Jamie Uys, James Blish, Reinhard Mohn, and Roberto Tucci. After her are Ernst Haas, Tommy Cooper, Rodney Dangerfield, Eusebio Castigliano, Mario Rigoni Stern, and Barbro Hiort af Ornäs. Among people deceased in 2013, Nadezhda Popova ranks 286. Before her are Olena Chekan, Antonio Puchades, Ramon Dekkers, Maria Tallchief, Donald Byrd, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. After her are Bobby Bland, Ingvar Rydell, August Schellenberg, Ružica Sokić, Ivan Bodiul, and Diane Disney Miller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nadezhda Popova ranks 1,578 out of 3,761. Before her are Maria Itkina (1932), Yuri Bondarev (1924), Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907), Raisa Smetanina (1952), Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), and Valentin Afonin (1939). After her are Valery Gazzaev (1954), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (1903), Viktor Nogin (1878), Fyodor Vasilyev (1850), and Alexei Fedchenko (1844).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Nadezhda Popova ranks 128. Before her are Filipp Oktyabrsky (1899), Yevfimiy Putyatin (1803), Vasily Gordov (1896), Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815), Vladimir Tributs (1900), and Alexander Gorbatov (1891). After her are Semyon Bogdanov (1894), Dmitry Senyavin (1763), Pyotr Gavrilov (1900), Ivan Maslennikov (1900), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), and Anatoly Kvashnin (1946).

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