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Nikolai Podgorny

1903 - 1983

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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (18 February [O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka on 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Podgorny has received more than 366,842 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Nikolai Podgorny is the 2,007th most popular politician (down from 1,827th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 59th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Nikolai Podgorny was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 to 1977. He was also the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1960 to 1977.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 2,007 out of 19,576. Before him are Stamford Raffles, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Axel Oxenstierna, Al-Hakam II, and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. After him are Andrew I of Hungary, Agesilaus II, Jayavarman VII, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Emperor Annei, and Sigebert III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 26. Before him are Anaïs Nin, Mustafa Barzani, Galeazzo Ciano, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hugo Theorell, and Hans Jonas. After him are Igor Kurchatov, Jiro Horikoshi, Fahri Korutürk, Karl Hanke, Raymond Queneau, and George Beadle. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 15. Before him are Jon Brower Minnoch, Felix Bloch, Tennessee Williams, Meyer Lansky, Arthur Koestler, and Albert Claude. After him are Raymond Aron, David Niven, George Cukor, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Buckminster Fuller, and Gerhard Barkhorn.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 85 out of 1,365. Before him are Nachman of Breslov (1772), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Selman Waksman (1888), Anacharsis (-700), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), and Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580). After him are Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 32. Before him are Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Sergey Bubka (1963), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883). After him are Karl Radek (1885), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), and Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640).

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