MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yekaterina Zelenko

1916 - 1941

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Yekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko (Russian: Екатерина Ивановна Зеленко, Ukrainian: Катерина Іванівна Зеленко; 23 February [O.S. 10 February] 1916 – 12 September 1941) was a Soviet Su-2 pilot who flew during the Winter War and World War II. She remains the only woman ever credited with conducting an aerial ramming, though many aviation historians question the credibility of such reports due to a lack of solid evidence. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yekaterina Zelenko is the 1,753rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,781st in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 747th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yekaterina Zelenko ranks 1,753 out of 2,058. Before her are Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Hudson Austin, Harry Patch, Theodor Hoffmann, Guo Boxiong, and Henry Gunther. After her are Wilhelm Heye, András Toma, Leonid Ivashov, Lewis Powell, Gustav von Alvensleben, and Gurgen Dalibaltayan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Yekaterina Zelenko ranks 218. Before her are Sudirman, Fernando Lamas, David White, Veronika Dudarova, Jakob Streitle, and Erich Mende. After her are Harry James, Ettore Puricelli, Irwin Allen, Anna Yegorova, Damián Iguacén Borau, and Neagu Djuvara. Among people deceased in 1941, Yekaterina Zelenko ranks 160. Before her are Émile Nelligan, Hermann Wilker, Paul von Hintze, Tom Phillips, Verner Järvinen, and Franz Bartl. After her are Źmitrok Biadula, Igor Severyanin, Princess Sophie of Luxembourg, Ludwig Stubbendorf, Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason, and Wil van Gogh.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yekaterina Zelenko ranks 718 out of 1,365. Before her are Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), Valentina Rastvorova (1933), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963), Dmitry Bogrov (1887), Alfred Eisenbeisser (1908), and Zbigniew Messner (1929). After her are Mykola Zerov (1890), Leonid Stadnyk (1969), Vladimír Syrovátka (1908), Volodymyr Lytvyn (1956), Panas Myrny (1849), and Itzik Feffer (1900).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Yekaterina Zelenko ranks 42. Before her are Vasyl Makukh (1927), Georgi Todorov (1858), Polina Gelman (1919), Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), Franciszek Kleeberg (1888), and Nikolay Shchors (1895). After her are Volodymyr Pravyk (1962), Serhiy Shaptala (1973), Marie Ljalková (1920), Józef Kowalski (1900), Olha Ilkiv (1920), and Kyrylo Budanov (1986).

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