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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 114,786 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gevork Vartanian is the 9,187th most popular politician (up from 10,102nd in 2019), the 928th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,027th in 2019) and the 269th most popular Russian Politician.

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  • 21

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gevork Vartanian ranks 9,187 out of 15,577. Before him are Fernando I, Duke of Braganza, Ernest of Bavaria, Stanisław Kania, Herman Wrangel, Ignaz Seipel, and Ioannis Palaiokrassas. After him are Flavio Cotti, François-Xavier Ortoli, Aulus Postumius Albinus, John Howard, Arnoldo Alemán, and Leo IV, King of Armenia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Gevork Vartanian ranks 162. Before him are Lubomír Štrougal, M. Karunanidhi, Franco Basaglia, Johannes Mario Simmel, Max Roach, and S. R. Nathan. After him are Haim Bar-Lev, Ken Tyrrell, Charles Bachman, Claude Lefort, Alice Babs, and Shintaro Abe. Among people deceased in 2012, Gevork Vartanian ranks 136. Before him are Gae Aulenti, Maxim of Bulgaria, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Han Suyin, Pahiño, and Gitta Sereny. After him are John Christopher, Ruggiero Ricci, Lakshmi Sahgal, Russell Means, Marie Colvin, and Eiko Ishioka.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 928 out of 3,262. Before him are Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Peter Struve (1870), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Duke Peter of Oldenburg (1812), Sergei Salnikov (1925), and Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929). After him are Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Gustaf Kossinna (1858), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), Tini Beg (1341), and Mikhail Katukov (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 269. Before him are Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), Kuzma Minin (1616), Boris Gryzlov (1950), Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (1196), and Peter Struve (1870). After him are Tini Beg (1341), Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902), Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878), George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1852), Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), and Ghazi Muhammad (1795).

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