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Gennady Yanayev

1937 - 2010

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Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Яна́ев; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician who served as the first and only vice president of the Soviet Union. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gennady Yanayev has received more than 637,283 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Yanayev is the 1,998th most popular politician (up from 2,497th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Russia (up from 252nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular Russian Politician.

Gennady Yanayev is most famous for his attempted coup d'état in the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gennady Yanayev ranks 1,998 out of 15,577. Before him are Richard II, Duke of Normandy, Injong of Joseon, Ram Nath Kovind, Jeongjong, 3rd monarch of Goryeo, Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat, and Andrew I of Hungary. After him are Afonso IV of Portugal, Pang Tong, Mary of Guise, Al-Kamil, Gennady Zyuganov, and James Callaghan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Gennady Yanayev ranks 31. Before him are Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Robert Coleman Richardson, Philip Glass, Bruce McLaren, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Jared Diamond. After him are Bill Cosby, Alain Badiou, David Hockney, Gordon Banks, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, and Avram Hershko. Among people deceased in 2010, Gennady Yanayev ranks 16. Before him are Zecharia Sitchin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Bobby Farrell, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After him are Ali Hassan al-Majid, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Maurice Allais, Georges Charpak, Alois Brunner, and Jean Simmons.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Yanayev ranks 200 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876). After him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Andrei Tupolev (1888), and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gennady Yanayev ranks 70. Before him are Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), and Yakov Sverdlov (1885). After him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), and Vasily II of Moscow (1415).

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