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Nikolai Gastello

1907 - 1941

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Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello (Russian: Николай Францевич Гастелло, April 23, 1907 – June 26, 1941) was a Russian aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the best known Soviet war heroes, being the best known Soviet pilot to conduct a "fire taran" – a suicide action by the pilot of an aircraft on fire, flying into a target with the intention of setting it alight. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Gastello is the 45th most popular pilot (up from 47th in 2019), the 1,597th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,657th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Nikolai Gastello ranks 45 out of 71. Before him are Olga Sanfirova, Helmut Wick, Bessie Coleman, Polina Osipenko, Steponas Darius, and Gotthard Handrick. After him are Jacqueline Auriol, Natalya Meklin, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Maguba Syrtlanova, Anna Yegorova, and Nikolai Kamanin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Nikolai Gastello ranks 252. Before him are Hugo Strauß, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Wanda Jakubowska, Petro Grigorenko, Bep van Klaveren, and Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu. After him are Lydia Chukovskaya, Sukhdev Thapar, Martín Marculeta, Edmond Delfour, Juan Carlos Corazzo, and Chico Landi. Among people deceased in 1941, Nikolai Gastello ranks 149. Before him are Štefan Banič, Afife Jale, Hugo Strauß, Louis Brandeis, Sueo Ōe, and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. After him are Penelope Delta, Lev Dovator, Frederick Moloney, Fritz Noether, Émile Nelligan, and Hermann Wilker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Gastello ranks 1,597 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Andrei Tchmil (1963), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), Pyotr Gavrilov (1900), and Igor Larionov (1960). After him are Mikhail Pugovkin (1923), Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (1942), Klavdiya Boyarskikh (1939), Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840), Pyotr Saltykov (1698), and Alexey Miller (1962).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Nikolai Gastello ranks 6. Before him are Marina Raskova (1912), Valery Chkalov (1904), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), and Olga Sanfirova (1917). After him are Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Anna Yegorova (1916), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Mariya Dolina (1922), and Tatyana Makarova (1920).

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