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Lazar Kaganovich

1893 - 1991

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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; 22 November [O.S. 10 November] 1893 – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He was one of several associates who helped Stalin to seize power. Born to Jewish parents in 1893, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and became a member of the Bolsheviks, joining the party around 1911. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lazar Kaganovich has received more than 1,428,872 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Lazar Kaganovich is the 1,555th most popular politician (up from 1,624th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Lazar Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and engineer who was responsible for many of the industrialization projects in the Soviet Union, including the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. He was also one of the most influential members of the Soviet leadership.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 1,555 out of 15,577. Before him are Leo IV the Khazar, José Eduardo dos Santos, Chulalongkorn, Chester A. Arthur, Leo I the Thracian, and Béla III of Hungary. After him are Kurt Schuschnigg, Anchises, Romanos I Lekapenos, Jeconiah, Shah Rukh, and Ferdinand I of Naples.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 13. Before him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Walter Ulbricht, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, and Soong Ching-ling. After him are Roland Freisler, Draža Mihailović, Karl Mannheim, Harold Lloyd, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and Damdin Sükhbaatar. Among people deceased in 1991, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 18. Before him are Klaus Barbie, Graham Greene, Carl David Anderson, Gustáv Husák, John Bardeen, and Soichiro Honda. After him are Frank Capra, Margot Fonteyn, David Lean, Marcel Lefebvre, Michael Landon, and Martha Graham.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 51 out of 1,083. Before him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), George Gamow (1904), Symon Petliura (1879), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Anne of Kiev (1025), and Vasily Grossman (1905). After him are Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), David Oistrakh (1908), Levi Eshkol (1895), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 21. Before him are Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), and Symon Petliura (1879). After him are Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Levi Eshkol (1895), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Daniel of Galicia (1201), and Moshe Sharett (1894).

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