1891 - 1938
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, tr. Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Genrikh Yagoda has received more than 1,586,512 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Genrikh Yagoda is the 1,352nd most popular politician (up from 1,391st in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Russia (up from 159th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Russian Politician.
Yagoda was a Soviet politician who was the head of the NKVD during the Great Purge. He is most famous for his role in the purges of the 1930s.
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Among politicians, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 1,352 out of 15,577. Before him are Seljuk, Toghon Temür, Valdemar IV of Denmark, Henri, Count of Chambord, Alexander of Greece, and Phorcys. After him are Tedros Adhanom, Constantine III, Cyrus I, Andronikos I Komnenos, Adnan Menderes, and Yang Shangkun.
902 - 1038
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 1,346
1320 - 1370
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 1,347
1320 - 1375
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 1,348
1820 - 1883
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 1,349
1893 - 1920
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 1,350
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 1,351
1891 - 1938
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 1,352
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 1,353
612 - 641
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 1,354
690 BC - 580 BC
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 1,355
1118 - 1185
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 1,356
1899 - 1961
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 1,357
1907 - 1998
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 1,358
Among people born in 1891, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 19. Before him are Frederick Banting, Pär Lagerkvist, Walther Bothe, Rudolf Carnap, Rafael Trujillo, and Otto Dix. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Ilya Ehrenburg, Fritz Todt, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, John Howard Northrop, and Alexander Rodchenko. Among people deceased in 1938, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 17. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Robert Johnson, Alexei Rykov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Carl von Ossietzky. After him are Marie of Romania, Muhammad Iqbal, Suzanne Valadon, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Thomas Wolfe, and Maud of Wales.
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 13
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 14
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 15
1891 - 1970
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 16
1891 - 1961
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 17
1891 - 1969
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 18
1891 - 1938
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 19
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 20
1891 - 1967
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 21
1891 - 1942
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 22
1891 - 1945
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 23
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 24
1891 - 1956
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 11
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 13
1881 - 1938
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 14
1863 - 1938
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 15
1889 - 1938
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 16
1891 - 1938
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 17
1875 - 1938
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 18
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 19
1865 - 1938
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 20
1876 - 1938
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 21
1900 - 1938
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 22
1869 - 1938
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 23
Among people born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 146 out of 3,262. Before him are Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Walther Funk (1890), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), and Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795). After him are Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Stenka Razin (1630), Andrey Vlasov (1901), and Alexander Glazunov (1865).
1350 - 1389
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 140
1890 - 1960
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 141
1917 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 142
1904 - 1980
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 143
1779 - 1831
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 144
1795 - 1865
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 145
1891 - 1938
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 146
1742 - 1775
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 147
1883 - 1973
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 148
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 149
1630 - 1671
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 150
1901 - 1946
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 151
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 152
Among politicians born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 59. Before him are Alexander Kolchak (1874), Felix Yusupov (1887), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Walther Funk (1890), and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779). After him are Viktor Zubkov (1941), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Sergey Shoygu (1955), and Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095).
1874 - 1920
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 53
1887 - 1967
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 54
1708 - 1728
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 55
1937 - 2023
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 56
1890 - 1960
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 57
1779 - 1831
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 58
1891 - 1938
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 59
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 60
1657 - 1704
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 61
1932 - 1999
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 62
1690 - 1718
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 63
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 64
1095 - 1157
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 65