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Pavel Sudoplatov

1907 - 1996

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Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (Russian: Пáвел Aнатóльевич Cудоплáтов; Ukrainian: Павло́ Анато́лійович Судопла́тов, romanized: Pavlo Anatoliiovych Sudoplatov; July 7, 1907 – September 24, 1996) was a senior Soviet official in the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union whose career spanned over 34 years in the different intelligence branches of the Soviet Armed Forces. Sudoplatov was involved in several major Soviet intelligence operations, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940 in Mexico, as well as Operation Scherhorn, a Soviet deception operation conducted during World War II. He also provided management of the Soviet espionage efforts which obtained information about the feasibility of the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project. His autobiography, Special Tasks, published in 1994, made him well known outside the Soviet Union and provided a detailed account of Soviet intelligence and Soviet internal politics during his years at the top. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Sudoplatov has received more than 375,306 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pavel Sudoplatov is the 667th most popular military personnel (up from 701st in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 220th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Pavel Sudoplatov ranks 667 out of 2,058. Before him are Wei Qing, Heinz Harmel, Werner Kempf, Jean-Andoche Junot, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. After him are Lei Feng, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Arslan Isra'il, Heinz Hitler, and Maarten Tromp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Pavel Sudoplatov ranks 90. Before him are René Char, Cab Calloway, Antonín Puč, Run Run Shaw, Anne Desclos, and Franz Jägerstätter. After him are Maria Branyas, Sebastian Haffner, Jean Hyppolite, Avraham Stern, Manfred von Ardenne, and Momčilo Đujić. Among people deceased in 1996, Pavel Sudoplatov ranks 74. Before him are Spiro Agnew, Bob Paisley, Toru Takemitsu, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Michel Debré. After him are Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Mary Leakey, Karl Rappan, Muhammad al-Badr, Stavros Niarchos, and Albert R. Broccoli.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Pavel Sudoplatov ranks 217 out of 1,365. Before him are Yaakov Dori (1899), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), and Leonid Kogan (1924). After him are Alexandru Averescu (1859), Filaret (1929), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Igor Svyatoslavich (1151), and Grigory Kulik (1890).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Pavel Sudoplatov ranks 22. Before him are Pavel Batitsky (1910), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Valerii Zaluzhnyi (1973), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), and Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836). After him are Grigory Kulik (1890), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Ivan Bohun (1618), Alexander Marinesko (1913), and Sergey Kamenev (1881).

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