Great Soviet test pilot... note the gender!
Marina Lavrentievna Popovich (née Vasiliyeva; July 20, 1931 – November 30, 2017) was a Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who held 102[1][2] aviation world records set on over 40 types of aircraft. She was one of the most famous pilots in Russian history, and one of the most important female pilots of all time.[3]
Marina Vasilieva became a Soviet Air Force pilot and in 1964, a military test pilot. She authored nine books and two screenplays. Among many other awards, she was honored as Hero of Socialist Labor, the Order of Courage (presented personally by Vladimir Putin in June 2007)[1] and a star in the Cancer constellation bears her name.[4]
Marina Popovich, a Russian Writers' Union member, authored nine books, including the poetry collection Zhizn – vechny vzlyot (Life's An Eternal Rise, 1972).[3] She was a co-author of two film scripts, Nebo So Mnoy (Sky Is With Me, 1974)[5] and Buket Fialok (Bouquet of Violets, 1983).[3]
Marina Popovich spoke about her experience with UFOs in her book titled UFO Glasnost (published in 2003 in Germany) and in public lectures and interviews. She claimed that the Soviet military and civilian pilots had confirmed 3000 UFO sightings and that the Soviet Air Force and KGB had fragments of five crashed UFOs. The crash sites were Tunguska (1908), Novosibirsk, Tallinn, Ordzhonikidze and Dalnegorsk (1986).
Marina Popovich's first husband was Pavel Popovich, a former Soviet cosmonaut,[6] with whom she had two daughters, Natalya (b. 1956) and Oksana (b. 1968), both Moscow State Institute of International Relations graduates.[7] She had two granddaughters, Tatyana and Alexandra, and grandson Michael, the latter born in England. [8] Her second husband was Boris Alexandrovich Zhikhorev, a retired Russian Airforce Major general, Deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of the Soviet Officers.[9]
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Marina Lavrentievna Popovich (née Vasiliyeva; July 20, 1931 – November 30, 2017) was a Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who held 102[1][2] aviation world records set on over 40 types of aircraft. She was one of the most famous pilots in Russian history, and one of the most important female pilots of all time.[3]
Marina Vasilieva became a Soviet Air Force pilot and in 1964, a military test pilot. She authored nine books and two screenplays. Among many other awards, she was honored as Hero of Socialist Labor, the Order of Courage (presented personally by Vladimir Putin in June 2007)[1] and a star in the Cancer constellation bears her name.[4]
Marina Popovich, a Russian Writers' Union member, authored nine books, including the poetry collection Zhizn – vechny vzlyot (Life's An Eternal Rise, 1972).[3] She was a co-author of two film scripts, Nebo So Mnoy (Sky Is With Me, 1974)[5] and Buket Fialok (Bouquet of Violets, 1983).[3]
Marina Popovich spoke about her experience with UFOs in her book titled UFO Glasnost (published in 2003 in Germany) and in public lectures and interviews. She claimed that the Soviet military and civilian pilots had confirmed 3000 UFO sightings and that the Soviet Air Force and KGB had fragments of five crashed UFOs. The crash sites were Tunguska (1908), Novosibirsk, Tallinn, Ordzhonikidze and Dalnegorsk (1986).
Marina Popovich's first husband was Pavel Popovich, a former Soviet cosmonaut,[6] with whom she had two daughters, Natalya (b. 1956) and Oksana (b. 1968), both Moscow State Institute of International Relations graduates.[7] She had two granddaughters, Tatyana and Alexandra, and grandson Michael, the latter born in England. [8] Her second husband was Boris Alexandrovich Zhikhorev, a retired Russian Airforce Major general, Deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of the Soviet Officers.[9]
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