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Popovich, Marina

LC control no.n 81072354
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPG3485.2.P624
Personal name headingPopovich, Marina
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Variant(s)Popovich, Marina Lavrentʹevna
Popovich, M. L. (Marina Lavrentʹevna)
Popovich, M. (Marina)
Vasilyeva, Marina Lavrentyevna
Vasilʹeva, Marina Lavrentʹevna
Попович, Марина
Попович, Марина Лаврентьевна
Попович, М. Л. (Марина Лаврентьевна)
Попович, М. (Марина)
Васильева, Марина Лаврентьевна
Associated countrySoviet Union Russia (Federation)
LocatedNovosibirsk (Russia)
Birth date1931-07-20?
Death date2017-11-30
Place of birthVelizhskiĭ raĭon (Russia)
Place of deathKrasnodar (Russia)
Profession or occupationTest pilots
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated
Found inKozhevnikova, T. B. Zhiznʹ--vechnyĭ vzlet, 1972.
Kozhevnikova, T. B. Zhiznʹ--vechnyĭ vzlet, 1980: t.p. (M. Popovich) verso t.p. (M. L. Popovich) colophon (Marina Lavrentʹevna Popovich)
Her Khozhdenie za dva Makha, 1981: t.p. (Marina Popovich)
678 field information, Dec. 18, 2017 (born 7/20/1931)
LC database, Dec. 18, 2017 (heading: Popovich, Marina Lavrentʹevna; usage: Marina Popovich [predominant form], M. Popovich, M.L. Popovich)
New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 18, 2017 (in obituary published Dec. 15: Marina L. Popovich; b. Marina Lavrentyevna Vasilyeva, in what is now the Smolensk region of Russia; fled with her family to Novosibirsk when German troops advanced on her town in World War II; m. Pavel R. Popovich (div. in the 1980s); m. Boris A. Zhikhorev; d. Nov. 30, in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia; her age was unclear; Tass listed her as 86, but it also said she had added six years to her age as a young woman in order to enroll in a military flight school; test pilot who broke more than 100 flying records and who was the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier)
Russian Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 18, 2017 (Марина Лаврентьевна Попович (Васильева) = Marina Lavrentʹevna Popovich (Vasilʹeva); b. July 20, 1931 (July 12, 1937, by her own account), Leonenki khutor, Velizhskiĭ raĭon, Zapadnai︠a︡ oblastʹ; d. Nov. 30, 2017, Krasnodar)
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