MILITARY PERSONNEL

Dmitry Utkin

1970 - 2023

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Dmitry Valerievich Utkin (Russian: Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин; 11 June 1970 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the co-founder and military commander of the Russian state-funded Wagner Group, with his military alias reportedly being Wagner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Utkin has received more than 2,675,448 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Utkin is the 505th most popular military personnel, the 442nd most popular biography from Russia and the 40th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Dmitry Utkin ranks 505 out of 2,058Before him are François Joseph Lefebvre, Thersites, Roustam Raza, Yevhen Konovalets, Josef Harpe, and Paul von Rennenkampf. After him are Leopold Joseph von Daun, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Conon, Hijikata Toshizō, Theodor Busse, and Andriy Melnyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Dmitry Utkin ranks 21Before him are Ethan Hawke, Paul Ryan, Melania Trump, Beck, Andre Agassi, and Lara Fabian. After him are River Phoenix, Naomi Campbell, Halit Ergenç, Claudia Schiffer, Simon Pegg, and Emmanuel Petit. Among people deceased in 2023, Dmitry Utkin ranks 96Before him are Gianni Vattimo, Thomas Williams, Françoise Gilot, Luis Garavito, Dariush Mehrjui, and Ruud Geels. After him are Matteo Messina Denaro, Shane MacGowan, Bo Larsson, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Aleksandr Viktorenko, and Burt Bacharach.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Utkin ranks 442 out of 3,761Before him are Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Lydia Litvyak (1921), Andrei Platonov (1899), Mehmed I Giray (1465), and Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691). After him are Salawat Yulayev (1754), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), False Dmitry II (1600), Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553), Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191), and Elsa Triolet (1896).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Dmitry Utkin ranks 40Before him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), and Dmitry Pavlov (1897). After him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Filipp Golikov (1900), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), and Lauri Törni (1919).