Marina Popovich

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Soviet pilot, writer and ufologist (1931-2017)

WritersLived 1931 to 2017 · aged 86

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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.

Also inDeutsch

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Awards 15

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Badge of Honour

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Impeccable Service"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"

aircraft pilot qualification (class)

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class

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SpousePavel Popovich

Connected to Marina 6

Larisa LuzhinaAlso in Heaven is With Me (1974)

Grigori RoshalAlso in Bouquet of Violets (1983)

Igor LedogorovAlso in Heaven is With Me (1974)

Natalya BondarchukAlso in Heaven is With Me (1974)

Vera StroyevaAlso in Bouquet of Violets (1983)

Valeri LonskoyAlso in Heaven is With Me (1974)

About this person

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.