1903 - 1983
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 in 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Podgorny has received more than 287,857 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Nikolai Podgorny is the 1,856th most popular politician (up from 1,955th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 65th in 2019) and the 25th 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, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 1,856 out of 15,577. Before him are Alexios V Doukas, Luís I of Portugal, Boris Johnson, Kenan Evren, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Edward, King of Portugal. After him are Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Herman Van Rompuy, Naram-Sin of Akkad, King Wen of Zhou, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
1140 - 1204
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 1,850
1838 - 1889
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 1,851
1964 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 1,852
1917 - 2015
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 1,853
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 1,854
1391 - 1438
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 1,855
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 1,856
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 1,857
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1,858
2254 BC - 2118 BC
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1,859
1112 BC - 1050 BC
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1,860
1939 - 2001
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1,861
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 1,862
Among people born in 1903, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 24. Before him are Andrey Kolmogorov, Yasujirō Ozu, Anaïs Nin, Adolf Butenandt, C. F. Powell, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. After him are Karl Hanke, Alec Douglas-Home, Jan Tinbergen, Mustafa Barzani, Irène Némirovsky, and Hans Jonas. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 13. Before him are Hergé, Idris of Libya, Tennessee Williams, Jon Brower Minnoch, David Niven, and Meyer Lansky. After him are Felix Bloch, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Albert Claude, Gloria Swanson, and George Cukor.
1903 - 1987
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 18
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 19
1903 - 1977
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 20
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1903 - 1936
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 23
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 25
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 26
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 27
1903 - 1979
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 28
1903 - 1942
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 29
1903 - 1993
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 30
1907 - 1983
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 9
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 10
1910 - 1983
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1902 - 1983
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 12
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 14
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 16
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 17
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 18
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 19
Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 59 out of 1,083. Before him are Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), David Oistrakh (1908), Levi Eshkol (1895), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883). After him are Selman Waksman (1888), Daniel of Galicia (1201), John Demjanjuk (1920), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Isaac Babel (1894), and Moshe Sharett (1894).
1898 - 1967
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 53
1874 - 1948
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 54
1908 - 1974
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 55
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 56
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 57
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 58
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 59
1888 - 1973
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 60
1201 - 1264
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 61
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 62
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 63
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 64
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 65
Among politicians born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 25. Before him are Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Symon Petliura (1879), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Levi Eshkol (1895), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883). After him are Daniel of Galicia (1201), Moshe Sharett (1894), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), and Karl Radek (1885).
1053 - 1125
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 19
1879 - 1926
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 20
1893 - 1991
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 21
1898 - 1967
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 22
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 23
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1201 - 1264
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 26
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 27
1890 - 1918
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 28
1978 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 29
955 - 980
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 30
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 31