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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Valentin Varennikov

1923 - 2009

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Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov (Russian: Валентин Иванович Варенников) (December 15, 1923 – May 6, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentin Varennikov has received more than 148,073 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Valentin Varennikov is the 1,185th most popular military personnel (up from 1,195th in 2019), the 1,065th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,119th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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  • 51.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Valentin Varennikov ranks 1,185 out of 1,468. Before him are Meleager, Hulusi Akar, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Jānis Balodis, Máximo Gómez, and Saad el-Shazly. After him are Antonio Maceo Grajales, Ōtomo no Otomaro, Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, Alexander Kutepov, Josias von Heeringen, and Carl Johan Adlercreutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Valentin Varennikov ranks 179. Before him are René Favaloro, Linda Darnell, Constantin Dăscălescu, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Jesús Rafael Soto, and D. N. Aidit. After him are Jorge María Mejía, Don Adams, Tonino Delli Colli, Glynis Johns, Hjalmar Andersen, and Sam Phillips. Among people deceased in 2009, Valentin Varennikov ranks 143. Before him are Yukio Endo, Armen Takhtajan, Amir Pnueli, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Fritz Darges, and Roy E. Disney. After him are Grigore Vieru, Giovanni Arrighi, Pierre Harmel, Jim Carroll, Pierre Gamarra, and Kazumi Takada.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentin Varennikov ranks 1,065 out of 3,262. Before him are Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), Vasily Golitsyn (1643), Mikhail Prishvin (1873), Kir Bulychev (1934), Fyodor Sergeyev (1883), and Sergei Yutkevich (1904). After him are Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Erich von Drygalski (1865), Alexander Kutepov (1882), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), and Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Valentin Varennikov ranks 87. Before him are Mikhail Katukov (1900), Andrei Shkuro (1887), Vladimir Kappel (1883), Pavel Grachev (1948), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), and Oleg Kalugin (1934). After him are Alexander Kutepov (1882), Ivan Tyulenev (1892), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Vasily Gordov (1896), Maksim Purkayev (1894), and Pavel Batov (1897).

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