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Oleg Gordievsky

1938 - Today

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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London. He was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985. After being recalled to Moscow under suspicion, he was exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in July 1985 under a plan code-named Operation Pimlico. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oleg Gordievsky has received more than 1,638,192 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Oleg Gordievsky is the 6,662nd most popular politician (up from 7,066th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from Russia (up from 662nd in 2019) and the 186th most popular Russian Politician.

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  • 19

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oleg Gordievsky ranks 6,662 out of 15,577. Before him are Peter II of Bulgaria, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Laelianus, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, John IV, Duke of Brittany, and Jonas Furrer. After him are Vukan Nemanjić, Bethuel, Birendra of Nepal, Neferkahor, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and Jacob Stainer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Oleg Gordievsky ranks 124. Before him are Wu Yi, David Baltimore, Mamadou Tandja, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ivan Sutherland, and Amfilohije Radović. After him are Marien Ngouabi, Nabih Berri, Anne Perry, Seishiro Shimatani, David Lane, and Shotaro Ishinomori.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Gordievsky ranks 648 out of 3,262. Before him are Valeriy Brumel (1942), Hans Pfitzner (1869), Nina Berberova (1901), Nikolay Voronov (1899), Vladislav Tretiak (1952), and Taihō Kōki (1940). After him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (1860), Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), and Nadezhda von Meck (1831).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Oleg Gordievsky ranks 186. Before him are Sergey Naryshkin (1954), Irina Godunova (1557), Dersu Uzala (1849), Nikolai Krylenko (1885), Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), and Taihō Kōki (1940). After him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (1860), Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Viktor Chernov (1873), and Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827).

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