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Ivan Serov

1905 - 1990

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Ivan Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Серóв; 13 August 1905 – 1 July 1990) was a Soviet intelligence officer who served as Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963. Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941 to 1954. Serov was active in organizing NKVD activities against anti-Soviet forces during the Soviet Invasion of Poland and World War II, including the Katyn massacre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Serov has received more than 590,387 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ivan Serov is the 3,623rd most popular politician (up from 4,295th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Russia (up from 402nd in 2019) and the 114th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ivan Serov ranks 3,623 out of 15,577. Before him are Bachir Gemayel, Muyeol of Silla, James II of Majorca, Jacob Kettler, Henry II, Duke of Austria, and David Cameron. After him are Emperor Ai of Han, Maria Anna of Spain, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Haakon V of Norway, Joscelin II, Count of Edessa, and Lu Su.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Ivan Serov ranks 38. Before him are Gerard Kuiper, Jean Vigo, Nevill Francis Mott, Ulf von Euler, George H. Hitchings, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark. After him are Fred Trump, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Harry Harlow, Otto Preminger, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and Albert Pierrepoint. Among people deceased in 1990, Ivan Serov ranks 37. Before him are Luigi Nono, Bruno Kreisky, Capucine, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Robert Noyce, and Taiichi Ohno. After him are Rex Harrison, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Aaron Copland, Oldřich Nejedlý, Patrick White, and Vasili Kuznetsov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Serov ranks 369 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vera Menchik (1906), and Jani Beg (1300). After him are Lovis Corinth (1858), Vasily Perov (1834), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Ivan Silayev (1930), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), and Bulat Okudzhava (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Ivan Serov ranks 114. Before him are Yury of Moscow (1281), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), Yakov Yurovsky (1878), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), and Jani Beg (1300). After him are Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Ivan Silayev (1930), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), and Naina Yeltsina (1932).

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