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Petro Shelest

1908 - 1996

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Petro Yukhymovych Shelest (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petro Shelest has received more than 86,368 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Petro Shelest is the 9,037th most popular politician (up from 9,491st in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 364th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Petro Shelest ranks 9,037 out of 19,576. Before him are Ba Maw, George Friedman, Duško Ivanović, Shams Pahlavi, Pallas, and Helle Thorning-Schmidt. After him are José Calvo Sotelo, Presian I of Bulgaria, Reginald I of Guelders, Albert Pintat, R. Budd Dwyer, and Abe no Nakamaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Petro Shelest ranks 131. Before him are Albert Scherrer, Carlos Peucelle, Leo Sternbach, Peg Entwistle, Robert Rossen, and Bo Yibo. After him are Son Ngoc Thanh, Sam Giancana, Salo Flohr, Richard Wright, Aurelio Peccei, and Ivan Yefremov. Among people deceased in 1996, Petro Shelest ranks 104. Before him are Yulii Khariton, Cao Yu, Leo Joseph Suenens, Ai Qing, Tiny Tim, and Shams Pahlavi. After him are Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Yahya Ayyash, Juan Hohberg, Antonín Mrkos, J. R. Jayewardene, and Alejandro Agustín Lanusse.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 350 out of 1,365. Before him are Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), Michał Boym (1614), Mikołaj Rej (1505), Larisa Shepitko (1938), and Victor Kravchenko (1905). After him are Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Bohdan Stupka (1941), Géza Kalocsay (1913), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Salo Flohr (1908), and Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 106. Before him are Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Eugen Schauman (1875), Grigory Petrovsky (1878), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), and Victor Kravchenko (1905). After him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849), Vitold Fokin (1932), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), and Yevhen Petrushevych (1863).

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