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Rufina Gasheva

1921 - 2012

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Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva (Russian: Руфина Сергеевна Гашева; 14 October 1921 – 1 May 2012) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement. After retiring, Gasheva worked in the Bureau of Foreign Military Literature at Voenizdat. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rufina Gasheva is the 1,884th most popular military personnel (up from 1,885th in 2019), the 2,114th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,131st in 2019) and the 148th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rufina Gasheva ranks 1,884 out of 2,058. Before her are Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Robert L. Eichelberger, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy. After her are Sergey Gritsevets, Mikhail Yefremov, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Elmo Zumwalt, James Stockdale, and Augustin Bizimungu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Rufina Gasheva ranks 383. Before her are Jesse Helms, Chico Hamilton, Paul Falk, Daniel Oduber Quirós, Josef Holeček, and Patricia Wrightson. After her are Walter Kaufmann, Giuseppe Moro, Franz Gabl, William Alston, Alexis Smith, and Cliff Bourland. Among people deceased in 2012, Rufina Gasheva ranks 365. Before her are Bob Welch, Frank Pierson, Corrie Sanders, Leila Denmark, Jaime Graça, and Susan Tyrrell. After her are José Guardiola, Aldo Maldera, Rosy Varte, Emanuel Steward, Josef Kloimstein, and Théophile Abega.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Rufina Gasheva ranks 2,114 out of 3,761. Before her are Alexander Mitta (1933), Valerian Albanov (1881), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Vytenis Andriukaitis (1951), and Pavel Solovyov (1917). After her are Viktor Klimenko (1949), Mikhail Yefremov (1897), Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Yuri Milner (1961), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), and Vitold Kreyer (1932).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Rufina Gasheva ranks 148. Before her are Dmitry Lavrinenko (1914), Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806), Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Musa Gareyev (1922), and Mariya Smirnova (1920). After her are Mikhail Yefremov (1897), Arseny Golovko (1906), Igor Sergun (1957), Leonid Khabarov (1947), Valeriya Gnarovskaya (1923), and Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925).

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