MILITARY PERSONNEL

Dmitry Yazov

1924 - 2020

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Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Russian: Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Yazov has received more than 658,081 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dmitry Yazov is the 306th most popular military personnel (up from 307th in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Russia (up from 269th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Dmitry Yazov is most famous for his role in the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Dmitry Yazov ranks 306 out of 2,058. Before him are Maurice Benyovszky, Rochus Misch, Meng Tian, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Alexander Löhr, and Vasily Blyukher. After him are Kurt Meyer, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Sejanus, John J. Pershing, John Demjanjuk, and Boris Shaposhnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Dmitry Yazov ranks 39. Before him are Lee Marvin, Henry Mancini, Truman Capote, Lys Assia, Amílcar Cabral, and Christopher Tolkien. After him are Antony Hewish, Jin Yong, Leon Uris, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, Karmapa, and Ed Wood. Among people deceased in 2020, Dmitry Yazov ranks 33. Before him are Juliette Gréco, Kenny Rogers, Neil Peart, Betty Williams, Christopher Tolkien, and Arthur Ashkin. After him are Jiří Menzel, Oliver E. Williamson, Michael Lonsdale, John le Carré, Lucia Bosè, and Kobe Bryant.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Yazov ranks 248 out of 3,761. Before him are Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Arthur Adamov (1908), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Vasily Blyukher (1889), and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876). After him are Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), and Dmitry Ustinov (1908).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Dmitry Yazov ranks 21. Before him are Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), and Vasily Blyukher (1889). After him are Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), and Andrei Grechko (1903).

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