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Lavrentiy Beria

1899 - 1953

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ( BERR-ee-ə; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, romanized: lavrent'i beria, IPA: [ˈɫavɾentʼi ˈbeɾia]; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and its state security administrator and chief, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin in 1941. He officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria was the longest-serving and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lavrentiy Beria has received more than 8,608,039 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Lavrentiy Beria is the 459th most popular politician (up from 525th in 2019).

Lavrentiy Beria was most famous for his involvement in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lavrentiy Beria has had the most page views in the with 963,002 views, followed by Russian (951,856), and German (160,411). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (199.63%), Ido (132.69%), and Greek (89.42%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 459 out of 19,576. Before him are Mustafa III, Shah Jahan, Alaric I, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lothair I, and José Mujica. After him are Mahidevran, Nur ad-Din, Caesarion, Stephen Báthory, Mary of Burgundy, and Atahualpa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 9. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Jorge Luis Borges, Al Capone, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Hayek, and Frederick IX of Denmark. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, Humphrey Bogart, László Bíró, Fred Astaire, Duke Ellington, and Francis Poulenc. Among people deceased in 1953, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 6. Before him are Joseph Stalin, Sergei Prokofiev, Edwin Hubble, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Ibn Saud. After him are Carol II of Romania, Robert Andrews Millikan, Klement Gottwald, Mary of Teck, Guccio Gucci, and Django Reinhardt.

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