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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 78,349 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Petro Shelest is the 9,518th most popular politician (down from 9,322nd in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 371st in 2019) and the 105th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Petro Shelest ranks 9,518 out of 15,577Before him are Giru of Baekje, Hugo von Pohl, Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Alcetas, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Regina Jonas. After him are Bjarni Benediktsson, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Black Hawk, Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Nikephoros II Orsini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Petro Shelest ranks 139Before him are Christa Schroeder, Juan López Fontana, Yevgeny Vuchetich, William Hartnell, Gisèle Freund, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. After him are Bjarni Benediktsson, Karel Ančerl, Son Ngoc Thanh, Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, and Maria Prymachenko. Among people deceased in 1996, Petro Shelest ranks 116Before him are Jo Van Fleet, Antonín Mrkos, Margaux Hemingway, Shams Pahlavi, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Annabella. After him are Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Koichi Oita, J. R. Jayewardene, Rob Hall, Jack Nance, and Jamie Uys.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 367 out of 1,083Before him are Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Joseph Schmidt (1904), Karol Mikuli (1821), Olga Kurylenko (1979), and Anatoly Onoprienko (1959). After him are Władysław Horodecki (1863), Leonid Popov (1945), Anna Walentynowicz (1929), Igor Moiseyev (1906), Lev Kopelev (1912), and Ivan Puluj (1845).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 105Before him are Vitaliy Masol (1928), Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Lev Mekhlis (1889), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), Polina Astakhova (1936), and Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963). After him are Anna Walentynowicz (1929), Igor Moiseyev (1906), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974).