# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meri-avidzba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:10:32.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meri-avidzba"
name: "Meri Avidzba"
slug: "meri-avidzba"
description: "Meri Hafizovna Avidzba was a Soviet military pilot and navigator and was the first female aviator from Abkhazia. She was awarded two medals for her actions in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), where she served as a navigator of the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, known by the Germans as the Night Witches. Later in her life, she was elected a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Abkhazia."
tagline: "First Abkhaziyan woman pilot (1917–1986)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Meri_Avidzba.jpg"
gender: "female"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1917-01-24"
deathDate: "1986-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.411556000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "ميرى اڤيدزبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Avidzba"
    title: "Meri Avidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%AB%E1%83%91%E1%83%90"
    title: "მერი ავიძბა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Awidzba"
    title: "Meri Awidzba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Авидзба, Мери Хафизовна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4055886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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