POLITICIAN

Alexander Yakovlev

1923 - 2005

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Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Я́ковлев; 2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika. Born into a rural family, Yakovlev served as a platoon commander of a marine brigade during World War II, and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union following the war. During the rule of Nikita Khrushchev, he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, before resigning to study abroad as part of the Fulbright Programme, returning in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Yakovlev has received more than 131,687 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander Yakovlev is the 7,846th most popular politician (down from 7,474th in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 733rd in 2019) and the 212th most popular Russian Politician.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Yakovlev ranks 7,846 out of 19,576. Before him are Neferkahor, Herman II, Duke of Swabia, Uijong of Goryeo, Obelerio degli Antenori, Artuk Bey, and William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Damat Ferid Pasha, Evgeny Pashukanis, Lord William Bentinck, Leopold Figl, Rostislav I of Kiev, and Jonas Basanavičius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Alexander Yakovlev ranks 121. Before him are Igor Shafarevich, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Ziba Ganiyeva, Andrés Rodríguez, Gloria Grahame, and Wally Schirra. After him are Koji Miyata, Antonio Quarracino, Zlatko Čajkovski, Judith Kerr, Bert Kaempfert, and Wes Montgomery. Among people deceased in 2005, Alexander Yakovlev ranks 84. Before him are Cicely Saunders, Annette Stroyberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Álvaro Cunhal, Andre Gunder Frank, and Alberto Lattuada. After him are Ed McBain, Amrita Pritam, Jef Raskin, Julio César Turbay Ayala, Edward Bunker, and Erich Topp.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Yakovlev ranks 742 out of 3,761. Before him are Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Ivan Susanin (1501), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Boris Gromov (1943), and Nikolai Rezanov (1764). After him are Nikolai Amosov (1913), Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), Gustaf Kossinna (1858), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), and Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander Yakovlev ranks 212. Before him are Vladimir of Novgorod (1020), Chaim Rumkowski (1877), Nikolai Krylenko (1885), Sergey Naryshkin (1954), Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847), and Ivan Susanin (1501). After him are Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), and Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754).

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