1893 - 1991
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич; 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 is known for helping Stalin come to power and for his harsh treatment and execution of those deemed threats to Stalin's regime. Born to Jewish parents in modern Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and became an early 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 747,668 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Lazar Kaganovich is the 1,627th most popular politician (down from 1,602nd in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 58th in 2019) and the 20th 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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Among politicians, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 1,627 out of 15,710. Before him are Horst Köhler, Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Diadumenian, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Empress Lü, and Maria Josepha of Bavaria. After him are Atia, Theodore II Laskaris, James I of Scotland, Lucius Caesar, Bao Zheng, and Lü Buwei.
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 1,621
1633 - 1654
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 1,622
208 - 218
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 1,623
1876 - 1965
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 1,624
241 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 1,625
1739 - 1767
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,626
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,627
85 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,628
1221 - 1258
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,629
1394 - 1437
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,630
17 BC - 2
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 1,631
999 - 1062
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 1,632
291 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 1,633
Among people born in 1893, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 17. Before him are Alexander of Greece, Draža Mihailović, Karl Mannheim, Soong Ching-ling, Harold Lloyd, and Roland Freisler. After him are George Grosz, Chaim Soutine, Harold Urey, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Andrés Segovia, and Hattie McDaniel. Among people deceased in 1991, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 20. Before him are Gustáv Husák, Carl David Anderson, Soichiro Honda, Frank Capra, John Bardeen, and Michael Landon. After him are Margot Fonteyn, Martha Graham, David Lean, Marcel Lefebvre, Max Frisch, and Oona O'Neill.
1893 - 1920
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 11
1893 - 1946
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 12
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 13
1893 - 1981
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 14
1893 - 1971
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 15
1893 - 1945
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 16
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 17
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 18
1893 - 1943
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 19
1893 - 1981
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 20
1893 - 1986
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 21
1893 - 1987
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 22
1893 - 1952
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 23
1913 - 1991
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 14
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 15
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 16
1897 - 1991
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 17
1908 - 1991
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 18
1936 - 1991
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 19
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 20
1919 - 1991
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 21
1894 - 1991
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 22
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 23
1905 - 1991
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 24
1911 - 1991
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 25
1925 - 1991
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 26
Among people born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 52 out of 913. Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Anne of Kiev (1025), Vasily Grossman (1905), Moshe Sharett (1894), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), and Leonid Kuchma (1938). After him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), Symon Petliura (1879), Anton Makarenko (1888), and John Demjanjuk (1920).
1883 - 1954
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 46
1025 - 1075
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 47
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 48
1894 - 1965
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 49
1053 - 1125
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 50
1938 - Present
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 51
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 52
1895 - 1969
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 53
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 54
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 55
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 56
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 57
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 58
Among politicians born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 20. Before him are Ivan Mazepa (1639), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Moshe Sharett (1894), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), and Leonid Kuchma (1938). After him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Symon Petliura (1879), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), and Boris Shcherbina (1919).
1639 - 1709
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 14
1954 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 15
1883 - 1954
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 16
1894 - 1965
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 17
1053 - 1125
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 18
1938 - Present
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 19
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 20
1895 - 1969
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 21
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 22
1890 - 1918
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 23
1898 - 1967
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 24
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 25
1919 - 1990
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 26