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Konstantin Chernenko

1911 - 1985

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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 1984 until his death a year later. Born to a poor family of Ukrainian ethnicity in Siberia originally from Ukraine, Chernenko joined the Komsomol in 1929 and became a full member of the party in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konstantin Chernenko has received more than 4,335,365 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Konstantin Chernenko is the 287th most popular politician (up from 295th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 44th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Politician.

Konstantin Chernenko was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1985. He died in office in 1985, and was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 287 out of 15,577. Before him are Septimius Severus, Peter III of Russia, Mehmed V, Philip II of France, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Sejong the Great. After him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, Vyacheslav Molotov, Hatice Sultan, Ahmed III, Beatrix of the Netherlands, and Hamid Karzai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 4. Before him are Ronald Reagan, Josef Mengele, and Baba Vanga. After him are Georges Pompidou, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Władysław Szpilman, Nino Rota, William Golding, and Todor Zhivkov. Among people deceased in 1985, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 3. Before him are Marc Chagall and Enver Hoxha. After him are Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Orson Welles, Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, Italo Calvino, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, and Rock Hudson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 42 out of 3,262. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901). After him are Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Boris Pasternak (1890), Yul Brynner (1920), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 18. Before him are Alexander III of Russia (1845), Yuri Andropov (1914), Paul I of Russia (1754), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), and Alexander II of Russia (1818). After him are Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), Boris Godunov (1552), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Rurik (830), and Feodor I of Russia (1557).

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