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Boris Shcherbina

1919 - 1990

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Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina (Russian: Борис Евдокимович Щербина; Ukrainian: Борис Євдокимович Щербина, romanized: Borys Yevdokymovych Shcherbyna; 5 October 1919 – 22 August 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1989. Originally from Ukraine, Shcherbina was influential in the development of the oil and gas industry in Siberia, particularly in Tyumen Oblast. In 1986, he was appointed head of the Chernobyl commission to investigate the cause of the disaster and oversee its management. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Shcherbina has received more than 3,457,870 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Boris Shcherbina is the 3,027th most popular politician (down from 2,563rd in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 91st in 2019) and the 39th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Boris Shcherbina was a Soviet politician. He was the head of the Soviet Union's NKVD, which was the predecessor to the KGB. He was most famous for his role in the Great Purge.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Shcherbina ranks 3,027 out of 19,576. Before him are Stephen III of Hungary, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Emperor Kanmu, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Sultan Husayn Bayqara. After him are Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Deiphobus, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Lluís Companys, and Xanana Gusmão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Boris Shcherbina ranks 28. Before him are Pierre Trudeau, Gerhard Barkhorn, Donald Pleasence, Dino De Laurentiis, Lex Barker, and Oleg Penkovsky. After him are Iris Murdoch, Andreas Papandreou, Moïse Tshombe, Leon Festinger, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, and César Manrique. Among people deceased in 1990, Boris Shcherbina ranks 28. Before him are Bruno Bettelheim, Ilya Frank, Robert Hofstadter, Sandro Pertini, Jacques Demy, and Keith Haring. After him are Oldřich Nejedlý, Barbara Stanwyck, Bruno Kreisky, Sergio Corbucci, Luigi Nono, and Patrick White.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Boris Shcherbina ranks 111 out of 1,365. Before him are Lev Shestov (1866), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), and Lee Strasberg (1901). After him are Ivan Paskevich (1782), Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), and Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Boris Shcherbina ranks 39. Before him are Karl Radek (1885), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), and Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640). After him are Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), and Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547).

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