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Eduard Shevardnadze

1928 - 2014

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Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1990. Shevardnadze started his political career in the late 1940s as a leading member of his local Komsomol organisation. He was later appointed its Second Secretary, then its First Secretary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Shevardnadze has received more than 938,416 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Eduard Shevardnadze is the 565th most popular politician (down from 423rd in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 4th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Georgian Politician.

Shevardnadze was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union and then for independent Georgia. He is most famous for his role in the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 565 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick William IV of Prussia, Nebuchadnezzar I, Oscar I of Sweden, George I of Greece, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Ahmose I. After him are Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Oscar II of Sweden, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Kim Dae-jung, Lech Kaczyński, and George II of Great Britain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 10. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, John Forbes Nash Jr., Noam Chomsky, and Agnès Varda. After him are Serge Gainsbourg, James Watson, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Roger Vadim, Osamu Tezuka, and Philip K. Dick. Among people deceased in 2014, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 6. Before him are Ariel Sharon, Gabriel García Márquez, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Eusébio, and Robin Williams. After him are Claudio Abbado, Luis Aragonés, Joe Cocker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Eli Wallach, and Gough Whitlam.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 5 out of 406. Before him are Joseph Stalin (1879), Attila (406), Darius the Great (-550), and Aram Khachaturian (1903). After him are Shota Rustaveli (1172), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Tamar of Georgia (1166), Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), Tigran Petrosian (1929), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), and Sergei Parajanov (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In Georgia

Among politicians born in Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Stalin (1879), Attila (406), and Darius the Great (-550). After him are Tamar of Georgia (1166), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), David IV of Georgia (1073), Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1886), Mikheil Saakashvili (1967), Sergei Witte (1849), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), and Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326).

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