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Symon Petliura

1879 - 1926

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Symon Vasyliovych Petliura (Ukrainian: Симон Васильович Петлюра; 22 May [O.S. 10 May] 1879 – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a part of the wider Russian Civil War. Petliura was born to a family of Cossack heritage in Poltava. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Symon Petliura has received more than 728,739 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Symon Petliura is the 1,291st most popular politician (up from 1,449th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 47th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Symon Petliura was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who led the Ukrainian People's Republic in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. He was assassinated by a Russian agent in Paris in 1926.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Symon Petliura ranks 1,291 out of 19,576Before him are Moshe Katsav, Şah Sultan, Eleftherios Venizelos, Andrei Gromyko, Rafic Hariri, and Caroline Bonaparte. After him are Cyaxares, Fredrik Bajer, Trebonianus Gallus, Alexander I of Serbia, Alcide De Gasperi, and Lazar of Serbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Symon Petliura ranks 14Before him are Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Francis Picabia, Emiliano Zapata, Alma Mahler, and Owen Willans Richardson. After him are Milutin Milanković, Hans Luther, Rudolf von Laban, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ottorino Respighi, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Among people deceased in 1926, Symon Petliura ranks 13Before him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Mary Cassatt, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea. After him are Emil Kraepelin, Louise of Sweden, Rudolph Valentino, Aleksei Brusilov, Gertrude Bell, and Nikola Pašić.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Symon Petliura ranks 49 out of 1,365Before him are Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), George Gamow (1904), and Anne of Kiev (1025). After him are Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Baal Shem Tov (1700), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Symon Petliura ranks 21Before him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Levi Eshkol (1895), and Yulia Tymoshenko (1960). After him are Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898).