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Andrei Gromyko

1909 - 1989

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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Громыко; Belarusian: Андрэй Андрэевіч Грамыка; 18 July [O.S. 5 July] 1909 – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Gromyko has received more than 1,059,063 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Andrei Gromyko is the 1,288th most popular politician (down from 875th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 9th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belarusian Politician.

Andrei Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1957 to 1985. He is most famous for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Andrei Gromyko ranks 1,288 out of 19,576. Before him are Maurice, Prince of Orange, Süleyman Demirel, Toghon Temür, Moshe Katsav, Şah Sultan, and Eleftherios Venizelos. After him are Rafic Hariri, Caroline Bonaparte, Symon Petliura, Cyaxares, Fredrik Bajer, and Trebonianus Gallus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Andrei Gromyko ranks 15. Before him are Victor Borge, U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mohammed V of Morocco, and Virginia Apgar. After him are Talal of Jordan, Stanislaw Ulam, Elia Kazan, Li Xiannian, Isaiah Berlin, and Ernst Gombrich. Among people deceased in 1989, Andrei Gromyko ranks 23. Before him are János Kádár, Laurence Olivier, Dolores Ibárruri, Vladimir Horowitz, Graham Chapman, and Sándor Márai. After him are Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, Silvana Mangano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Emilio Segrè.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Andrei Gromyko ranks 10 out of 368. Before him are Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), and Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732). After him are Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Olga Korbut (1955), Zhores Alferov (1930), and Zalman Shazar (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Andrei Gromyko ranks 7. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), and Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732). After him are Zalman Shazar (1889), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), Maria Kaczyńska (1942), and Stanislav Shushkevich (1934).

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