 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.Marina Vasilieva was born in 1931 in the Velizhsky District of Smolensk Oblast, but evacuated with her family to Novosibirsk during World War II.She began learning to fly as a child but, following the war, the Soviet Union barred women from serving as military pilots.