SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Petro Grigorenko

1907 - 1987

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Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Григо́рович Григоре́нко, 16 October [O.S. 3 October] 1907 – 21 February 1987) was a high-ranking Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, who in his fifties became a dissident and a writer, one of the founders of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. For 16 years, he was a professor of cybernetics at the Frunze Military Academy and chairman of its cybernetic section before joining the ranks of the early dissidents. In the mid-1970s Grigorenko helped to found the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, before leaving the USSR for medical treatment in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petro Grigorenko has received more than 84,565 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Petro Grigorenko is the 365th most popular social activist, the 508th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Petro Grigorenko ranks 365 out of 840. Before him are Felix Manz, Zinaida Portnova, Black Elk, Hector Hodler, Karl Ludwig Sand, and Vasily Ignatenko. After him are Pattimura, Clara Barton, Hannie Schaft, Udham Singh, Frank País, and Ram Manohar Lohia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Petro Grigorenko ranks 174. Before him are Jean Carzou, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Géza von Radványi, Sergei Shtemenko, Béla Barényi, and Nicanor Zabaleta. After him are Janusz Kusociński, Sándor Veress, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Amedeo Nazzari, Ethel Smith, and James M. Gavin. Among people deceased in 1987, Petro Grigorenko ranks 122. Before him are René Lévesque, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Patrick Troughton, Bernhard Grzimek, Ivo Lapenna, and Vladimir Basov. After him are Jackie Gleason, Rashid Karami, M. G. Ramachandran, Richard Marquand, Victoria Kent, and Gilberto Freyre.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Petro Grigorenko ranks 508 out of 1,365. Before him are Igor Moiseyev (1906), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Sergei Stanishev (1966), Mikhail Fridman (1964), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), and Viktor Chukarin (1921). After him are Iryna Melnykova (1918), Boris Yefimov (1900), Mykola Khvylovy (1893), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Vasyl Makukh (1927), and Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Petro Grigorenko ranks 8. Before him are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Georgy Gapon (1870), Alexander Pechersky (1909), Haim Arlosoroff (1899), David Riazanov (1870), and Sergei Kovalev (1930). After him are Maria Nikiforova (1885), Borys Romanchenko (1926), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Leo Deutsch (1855), Alfreda Markowska (1926), and Mykola Rudenko (1920).

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