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Alexander Lebed

1950 - 2002

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Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ле́бедь; 20 April 1950 – 28 April 2002) was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Forces before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the second largest Russian region. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Lebed has received more than 437,158 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Alexander Lebed is the 6,479th most popular politician (up from 7,588th in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 746th in 2019) and the 174th most popular Russian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Lebed ranks 6,479 out of 19,576. Before him are Samuel Noah Kramer, Ante Starčević, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, William II, Count of Hainaut, and Ludmilla Tourischeva. After him are Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Ralph I, Count of Vermandois, Hajime Sugiyama, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, and Sadyr Japarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Alexander Lebed ranks 96. Before him are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Javier Clemente, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Ueli Maurer, Julius Erving, and Jorge Carlos Fonseca. After him are Mory Kanté, Anghel Iordănescu, Ubaldo Fillol, William Sadler, Håkan Nesser, and Jean-Marc Ayrault. Among people deceased in 2002, Alexander Lebed ranks 78. Before him are Geraldine of Albania, François Périer, Sohn Kee-chung, Yousuf Karsh, Uziel Gal, and Choi Hong Hi. After him are Pierre Werner, George Roy Hill, Marina Berti, Kim Hunter, Ray Conniff, and Thomas Gordon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Lebed ranks 592 out of 3,761. Before him are Ulugh Muhammad (1405), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Nina Berberova (1901), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952). After him are Vladislav Volkov (1935), Pavel Axelrod (1850), Nikolai Ge (1831), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), and Konstantin Paustovsky (1892).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander Lebed ranks 174. Before him are Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), Anund Gårdske (1004), Ulugh Muhammad (1405), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952). After him are Pavel Axelrod (1850), Dersu Uzala (1849), Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), Viktor Abakumov (1908), Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), and Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782).

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