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Dec 23, 2017 · Sat Dec 23 2017 - 01:51. Marina Lavrentyevna Popovich, a test pilot who broke more than 100 flying records and who was the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier, died in the Krasnodar ...
Marina Popovich was an outstanding military pilot, writer and poet. The only thing she was unable to conquer was space. One hundred and two world records, 5,600 hours in the sky, 40 different piloted planes and helicopters, a doctorate in engineering and 15 published books, including a collection of poems.
Oct 22, 2009 · Barry Kushner writes: I interviewed Pavel Popovich (obituary, 8 October) for a documentary on the Soviet space programme, and found his positive spirit a striking contrast to the fragility and ...
Getting into military jet aviation with its heavy overloads was almost an impossible task for a girl, but Popovich coped with it, as well. In 1961, she became the first Soviet female 1st class ...
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Pavel Romanovich Popovich (‹See Tfd› Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, romanized: Pavlo Romanovych Popovych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009 [2] [3]) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Galina, who is married to a pediatrician from the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east, has one child: a boy, now 17, named Yuri. Like her sister, she is fluent in English. Galina’s ...
Apr 19, 2018 · Graduated from Military Pilot School, Grozny, 1954; graduated from Air Force Academy, Monino, 1968; Major General, Ret., and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 (TsPK -1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 3/60 - 18.01.1961; later Director of AIUS Agroresurs, Moscow; died of brain bleeding. Last update on April 19, 2018.
