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Boris Savinkov

1879 - 1925

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Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (Russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; 31 January 1879 – 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the SR Combat Organization, the paramilitary wing of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Savinkov was involved in the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905. After the February Revolution of 1917, he became the Russian Provisional Government commissar to the Seventh Army, and then to the Southwestern Front. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Savinkov has received more than 471,369 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Savinkov is the 62nd most popular extremist (up from 68th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 146th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Extremist.

Boris Savinkov was a Russian revolutionary who was a key figure in the 1905 Russian Revolution. He was also a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and was instrumental in the assassination of the Minister of Interior, Vyacheslav Plehve.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Boris Savinkov ranks 62 out of 283. Before him are Michel Fourniret, Dennis Rader, Marc Dutroux, Mohammed Deif, Henri Désiré Landru, and Luis Garavito. After him are Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Pedro López, Carlo Gambino, Kang Kek Iew, and Matteo Messina Denaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Boris Savinkov ranks 46. Before him are E. M. Forster, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frederick Griffith, Adolf Strauss, and Wanda Landowska. After him are Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, Ethel Barrymore, Max Schreck, Huda Sha'arawi, and Bedřich Hrozný. Among people deceased in 1925, Boris Savinkov ranks 41. Before him are Pierre Louÿs, Clément Ader, Johann Palisa, Max Linder, Lovis Corinth, and Christian Krohg. After him are Robert Koldewey, August von Wassermann, Michel Verne, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Nariman Narimanov, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Boris Savinkov ranks 160 out of 1,365. Before him are Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Valentin Glushko (1908), and Juliusz Słowacki (1809). After him are Richard von Mises (1883), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Serge Lifar (1904), Tamara Press (1937), and Heinrich Neuhaus (1888).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Ukraine

Among extremists born in Ukraine, Boris Savinkov ranks 2. Before him are Andrei Chikatilo (1936). After him are Anatoly Onoprienko (1959).

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