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Alexander Rutskoy

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Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy (Russian: Александр Владимирович Руцкой; born 16 September 1947) is a Russian politician and former Soviet military officer who served as the only vice president of Russia from 1991 to 1993. He was proclaimed acting president following Boris Yeltsin's impeachment during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, in which he played a key role. Born in Proskuriv, Ukraine (modern Khmelnytskyi), Rutskoy served with great distinction as an air force officer during the Soviet–Afghan War, for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Rutskoy has received more than 512,297 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Alexander Rutskoy is the 6,408th most popular politician (down from 4,860th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 175th in 2019) and the 74th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Rutskoy ranks 6,408 out of 19,576. Before him are Eurybiades, Taejodae of Goguryeo, He Zizhen, Brennus, Ansprand, and Chan Santokhi. After him are Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Theudoald, Kara Davud Pasha, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Rufinus, and Eurydice of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alexander Rutskoy ranks 136. Before him are Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Roger De Vlaeminck, Glenn Tipton, Marion Ramsey, Nina Matviienko, and Ry Cooder. After him are Oliver Dragojević, David Byron, H. Robert Horvitz, Kevin Farrell, Thomas Cech, and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Rutskoy ranks 233 out of 1,365. Before him are Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Nina Matviienko (1947), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), and Anatole Litvak (1902). After him are Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Ivan Bohun (1618), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Natan Sharansky (1948), and Michael Rostovtzeff (1870).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Alexander Rutskoy ranks 74. Before him are Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Yaakov Dori (1899), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), and Peter Wittgenstein (1768). After him are Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Natan Sharansky (1948), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), and Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104).

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