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Gevork Vartanian

1924 - 2012

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Gevork Andreevich Vartanian (Armenian: Գևորգ Վարդանյան, Russian: Гево́рк Андре́евич Вартаня́н; 17 February 1924 – 10 January 2012) was a Soviet intelligence officer. He was primarily responsible, together with his wife Goar Vartanian, for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an alleged attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gevork Vartanian has received more than 123,667 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Gevork Vartanian is the 10,526th most popular politician (down from 9,160th in 2019), the 1,091st most popular biography from Russia (down from 926th in 2019) and the 306th most popular Russian Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gevork Vartanian ranks 10,526 out of 19,576. Before him are Thomas E. Dewey, Dan Sullivan, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Eutropia, Lars Korvald, and Krešimir I of Croatia. After him are Richard de Bures, Asakura Yoshikage, Thekla, wife of Michael II, Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Reniero Zeno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Gevork Vartanian ranks 188. Before him are John Hansen, Max Roach, Girija Prasad Koirala, Jean-François Revel, Gohar Gasparyan, and Fud Leclerc. After him are Isadore Singer, Maurice Karnaugh, Rudolf Barshai, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Marc Ferro, and Nina Foch. Among people deceased in 2012, Gevork Vartanian ranks 156. Before him are Sage Stallone, Ivica Horvat, Eve Arnold, Han Suyin, William Thurston, and Michel Duchaussoy. After him are Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Assef Shawkat, I. K. Gujral, George McGovern, Anita Björk, and Shulamith Firestone.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 1,091 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Mikhailov (1944), Hyacinth (1777), Angelina Beloff (1879), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Eduard Artemyev (1937), and Stephen of Perm (1340). After him are Semyon Alapin (1856), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Zinaida Yusupova (1861), Galina Zybina (1931), and Pavel Yablochkov (1847).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 306. Before him are Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887), Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky (1796), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), Maria Zakharova (1975), Sergey Uvarov (1786), and Boris Mikhailov (1944). After him are Fyodor Raskolnikov (1892), Yusuf Akçura (1876), Carl Jaenisch (1813), Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877), Svetlana Medvedeva (1965), and Vasily Golitsyn (1643).

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