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Nikolai Ryzhkov

1929 - 2024

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Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (Russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков; Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Рижков; 28 September 1929 – 28 February 2024) was a Russian politician. He served as the last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and was succeeded by Valentin Pavlov as prime minister. The same year, he lost his seat on the Presidential Council, going on to become Boris Yeltsin's leading opponent in the 1991 presidential election of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Ryzhkov has received more than 609,790 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Nikolai Ryzhkov is the 4,151st most popular politician (down from 3,588th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 119th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Nikolai Ryzhkov was a Soviet politician who served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1985 to 1990. He was also the last head of state of the Soviet Union.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikolai Ryzhkov ranks 4,151 out of 19,576. Before him are Fujiwara no Michinaga, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Ephraim Katzir, Áed mac Cináeda, Osorkon I, and Maria Leopoldine of Austria. After him are Eric X of Sweden, Gustav Noske, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Rudolph III of Burgundy, Hans Aumeier, and Milan Milutinović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Nikolai Ryzhkov ranks 88. Before him are E. O. Wilson, Gerald Edelman, Chadli Bendjedid, Omar Torrijos, Francis Gary Powers, and Gaston Glock. After him are Claes Oldenburg, Alfred Moisiu, Isabel Sarli, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Fernanda Montenegro. Among people deceased in 2024, Nikolai Ryzhkov ranks 66. Before him are Susan Wojcicki, Yahya Sinwar, Glynis Johns, Sandra Milo, Robert Badinter, and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger. After him are Kris Kristofferson, Caterina Valente, Norman Jewison, Daniel Dennett, Geneviève Grad, and Issa Hayatou.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ryzhkov ranks 144 out of 1,365. Before him are Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Shvarn (1230), and Ephraim Katzir (1916). After him are Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Isaac Stern (1920), Alfred Redl (1864), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), and Zinaida Serebriakova (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ryzhkov ranks 50. Before him are Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), Shvarn (1230), and Ephraim Katzir (1916). After him are Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Robert Maxwell (1923), and Leo Kanner (1894).

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