MILITARY PERSONNEL

Polina Gelman

1919 - 2005

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Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Полі́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Polina Gelman is the 1,622nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,613th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 38th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Polina Gelman ranks 1,622 out of 2,058Before her are Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Gerhard von Schwerin, Erich Buschenhagen, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, James Somerville, and Davit Bek. After her are Alexios Branas, Arrhidaeus, Leonhard Kaupisch, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, and Itō Sukeyuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Polina Gelman ranks 201Before her are Eileen Heckart, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Doris Miller, Michèle Arnaud, Laila Schou Nilsen, and Roman Vlad. After her are Olle Anderberg, Gottfried Dienst, Gert Fredriksson, Karl H. Pribram, Vladimír Vašíček, and Fazlur Rahman Malik. Among people deceased in 2005, Polina Gelman ranks 185Before her are Devan Nair, Yevgeny Grishin, Per Borten, Johnny Haynes, Stanley Williams, and Jaime Sin. After her are Marc Lawrence, Ralph Erskine, John Spencer, Attilio Giovannini, Sígfrid Gràcia, and Tetyana Yablonska.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Polina Gelman ranks 604 out of 1,365Before her are Georgi Todorov (1858), Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888), Yaroslav Yevdokimov (1946), Oleksiy Danilov (1962), Elina Bystritskaya (1928), and Roman Vlad (1919). After her are Alexander Bogomazov (1880), Rolan Bykov (1929), Leonid Bronevoy (1928), Oleksandr Zavarov (1961), Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807), and Valentina Lisitsa (1973).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Polina Gelman ranks 38Before her are Alexander Matrosov (1924), Nikolai Linevich (1839), Grigory Shtern (1900), Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), Vasyl Makukh (1927), and Georgi Todorov (1858). After her are Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), Franciszek Kleeberg (1888), Nikolay Shchors (1895), Yekaterina Zelenko (1916), Volodymyr Pravyk (1962), and Serhiy Shaptala (1973).