# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marina-popovich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:50:19.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marina-popovich"
name: "Marina Popovich"
slug: "marina-popovich"
description: "Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as \"Madame MiG\", for her work in the Soviet fighter, she set more than one hundred aviation world records on over 40 types of aircraft over her career."
tagline: "Soviet pilot, writer and ufologist (1931-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PopovichML.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-07-20"
deathDate: "2017-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.33841466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1079780/"
    handle:    "nm1079780"
sources:
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    title: "Marina Popovich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marina Lavrentievna Popovich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارينا پوپوڤيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Попович Марина Лаврентьевна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марына Лаўрэнцьеўна Паповіч"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marina Popóvitx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marina Popovich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Lawrentjewna_Popowitsch"
    title: "Marina Lawrentjewna Popowitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovich"
    title: "Marina Popovich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Pop%C3%B3vich"
    title: "Marina Popóvich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovitch"
    title: "Marina Popovitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D5%8A%D5%B8%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B9"
    title: "Մարինա Պոպովիչ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovi%C4%8D"
    title: "Marina Popovič"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popowicz"
    title: "Marina Popowicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovici"
    title: "Marina Popovici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Попович, Марина Лаврентьевна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1618177"
    title: "Marina Popovich"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump