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Yekaterina Budanova

1916 - 1943

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Yekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova (Russian: Екатерина Васильевна Буданова), nicknamed Katya (Катя) (6 December 1916 – 19 July 1943), was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Usually credited with five or more aerial victories, along with Lydia Litvyak, she is often considered one of the world's two female fighter aces. She was shot down by either Luftwaffe ace Georg Schwientek of JG 52 or ace Emil Bitsch, of JG 3. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yekaterina Budanova is the 882nd most popular military personnel (up from 1,018th in 2019), the 723rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 853rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yekaterina Budanova ranks 882 out of 2,058. Before her are Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Artabazos I of Phrygia, Jukums Vācietis, Adelbert Schulz, Karl Lennart Oesch, and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. After her are Marco Antonio Bragadin, Ian Hamilton, Winrich von Kniprode, Joseph E. Johnston, François Étienne de Kellermann, and Quintus Titurius Sabinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Yekaterina Budanova ranks 93. Before her are Ray Conniff, James Herriot, José Manuel Moreno, Mika Špiljak, Jane Jacobs, and Betty Grable. After her are Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Pérez Prado, Chiang Wei-kuo, Luis Corvalán, Jurij Brězan, and Mercedes McCambridge. Among people deceased in 1943, Yekaterina Budanova ranks 78. Before her are Senjūrō Hayashi, Lin Sen, Wilhelm Kube, Charlotte Salomon, Fethi Okyar, and Jovan Dučić. After her are Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Edsel Ford, Anathon Aall, Aspazija, Frank Nitti, and Manshuk Mametova.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yekaterina Budanova ranks 723 out of 3,761. Before her are Eduard Uspensky (1937), Nikolay Shvernik (1888), Karl Lennart Oesch (1892), Sergei Belov (1944), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), and Oleg Popov (1930). After her are Alexander Belyaev (1884), Caran d'Ache (1858), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Lev Rudnev (1885), Ivan Maisky (1884), and Catherine of Brandenburg (1604).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Yekaterina Budanova ranks 63. Before her are Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Nikolay Voronov (1899), Iosif Gurko (1828), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), Alexey Kaledin (1861), and Karl Lennart Oesch (1892). After her are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Boris Gromov (1943), Ivan Panfilov (1893), Anatoly Stessel (1848), Maria Bochkareva (1889), and Yakov Pavlov (1917).

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