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Nikolai Kamanin

1908 - 1982

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Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island. In World War II he successfully commanded an air brigade, air division, and air corps, reaching the rank of Airforce Colonel General and Air Army commander after the war. It was at this time that his son, Arkady Kamanin, became a fighter pilot at the age of 14, the youngest military pilot in world history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Kamanin is the 51st most popular pilot (down from 44th in 2019), the 1,749th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,560th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 51 out of 71. Before him are Nikolai Gastello, Jacqueline Auriol, Natalya Meklin, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Maguba Syrtlanova, and Anna Yegorova. After him are Mariya Dolina, Gregorio Fuentes, Stasys Girėnas, Tatyana Makarova, Wally Funk, and Maryse Bastié.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 292. Before him are Eve Arden, Milton Berle, György Bródy, Hermógenes Fonseca, Quentin Crisp, and Josué de Castro. After him are Viacheslav Ragozin, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Sigmund Haringer, James Workman, Rudolf Bürger, and Boris Rybakov. Among people deceased in 1982, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 203. Before him are Jakob Streitle, Paolo Monti, Vladislao Cap, Clifford Curzon, Virginia Hall, and René Dubos. After him are Elis Wiklund, Tomás Romero Pereira, Victor Buono, Beb Bakhuys, Boris Andreyev, and Alexander Abusch.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 1,749 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Semashko (1874), Leonid Filatov (1946), Anatoly Kvashnin (1946), Yuri Vizbor (1934), Igor Severyanin (1887), and Evgeni Plushenko (1982). After him are Artur Chilingarov (1939), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), David Keilin (1887), and Viacheslav Ragozin (1908).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Nikolai Kamanin ranks 10. Before him are Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Nikolai Gastello (1907), Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), and Anna Yegorova (1916). After him are Mariya Dolina (1922), Tatyana Makarova (1920), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), Lydia Zvereva (1890), and Mikhail Gromov (1899).

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