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Viktor Talalikhin

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Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Талалихин; 18 September 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant and aviator during the Winter War and World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union, among the first to perform aerial ramming at night. Talalikhin became a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in the late 1930s, flying the Polikarpov I-153 during the Winter War. He served in the air defense of Moscow during World War II with an aviation regiment of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. He became one of the first Soviet aviation heroes of the war after ramming a German bomber at night with his Polikarpov I-16, but was shot down and killed in late October while flying a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Talalikhin is the 60th most popular pilot (down from 56th in 2019), the 2,076th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,970th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 60 out of 71. Before him are Stasys Girėnas, Tatyana Makarova, Wally Funk, Maryse Bastié, Hélène Boucher, and Adrienne Bolland. After him are Jerrie Cobb, Lotfia Elnadi, Charles Kingsford Smith, Lydia Zvereva, Mikhail Gromov, and Péter Besenyei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 260. Before him are Said Mohamed Jaffar, Jopie Selbach, Luciano Emmer, Renée Faure, Avery Dulles, and Rand Brooks. After him are Jeanne Bates, Johnnie Parsons, Enrique Tierno Galván, Donald Regan, Adolph Kiefer, and Stubby Kaye.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 2,076 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitri Vrubel (1960), Mikhail Krug (1962), Aleksei Mamykin (1936), Anton Yelchin (1989), Oleg Romantsev (1954), and Marina Ratner (1938). After him are Nadezhda Kadysheva (1959), Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Georgy Ushakov (1901), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), and Olga Bondarenko (1960).

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Among PILOTS In Russia

Among pilots born in Russia, Viktor Talalikhin ranks 13. Before him are Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Anna Yegorova (1916), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Mariya Dolina (1922), and Tatyana Makarova (1920). After him are Lydia Zvereva (1890), and Mikhail Gromov (1899).

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