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Leonid Kravchuk

1934 - 2022

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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA: [ˈlɛ.ɔ.nʲid mɐˈka.rɔ.ʋet͡ʃ krɐu̯ˈt͡ʃuk]; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, undertaking to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Kravchuk has received more than 858,731 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Leonid Kravchuk is the 999th most popular politician (down from 699th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 36th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leonid Kravchuk was the first president of Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was elected in 1991 and served until 1994. He is most famous for being the first president of Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Memorability Metrics

  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Leonid Kravchuk has had the most page views in the with 270,771 views, followed by Ukrainian (140,187), and English (138,344). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Meadow Mari (886.52%), Min Nan (353.47%), and Lombard (127.91%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonid Kravchuk ranks 999 out of 19,576. Before him are Stephen III of Moldavia, Abd el-Krim, Shang Yang, Louis II of Italy, Pepin of Herstal, and Queen Seondeok of Silla. After him are Constans II, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, Pietro Badoglio, Alexander Kolchak, and Isaac II Angelos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Leonid Kravchuk ranks 15. Before him are Maggie Smith, Gene Cernan, Carl Sagan, Nana Mouskouri, Daniel Kahneman, and Judi Dench. After him are Vavá, Jane Goodall, Paco Rabanne, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ulrike Meinhof, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Among people deceased in 2022, Leonid Kravchuk ranks 13. Before him are Vangelis, Shinzō Abe, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. After him are Ayman al-Zawahiri, Olivia Newton-John, Madeleine Albright, Monica Vitti, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Vivienne Westwood.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk ranks 38 out of 1,365. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Igor Sikorsky (1889), Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), and Nestor Makhno (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk ranks 17. Before him are Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), and Grigory Zinoviev (1883). After him are Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Symon Petliura (1879), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884).

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