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 159,124 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Valentin Varennikov is the 1,377th most popular military personnel (down from 1,185th in 2019), the 1,176th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,063rd in 2019) and the 106th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Valentin Varennikov ranks 1,377 out of 2,058. Before him are Publius Canidius Crassus, Friedrich Christiansen, Constantin von Alvensleben, Sayf al-Din Khushqadam, Al-Ashraf Kujuk, and Avraham Adan. After him are Gennady Zhidko, Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia, Sergei Khudyakov, Georg von Derfflinger, Cândido Rondon, and Magnia Urbica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Valentin Varennikov ranks 190. Before him are René Favaloro, Octavio Lepage, Václav Ježek, Sam Francis, Simeon ten Holt, and Norberto Méndez. After him are José Giovanni, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Milt Jackson, and Zeffiro Furiassi. Among people deceased in 2009, Valentin Varennikov ranks 149. Before him are Guillermo Endara, Fritz Muliar, Kazumi Takada, Gianna Maria Canale, Aram Tigran, and Ryuzo Hiraki. After him are Jim Carroll, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Allen Klein, Lucian Pulvermacher, and Joan Martí i Alanis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentin Varennikov ranks 1,176 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Raimonds Vējonis (1966), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), and Nadia Petrova (1982). After him are Andrei Linde (1948), Vladimir Makovsky (1846), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Eino Rahja (1885), Georgy Grechko (1931), and Eugen Leviné (1883).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Valentin Varennikov ranks 106. Before him are Serhiy Tkach (1952), Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Yevfimiy Putyatin (1803), Paul Gorguloff (1895), Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), and Pavel Batov (1897). After him are Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Eino Rahja (1885), Issa Pliyev (1903), Alexander Chavchavadze (1786), Dmitry Lelyushenko (1901), and Nikolai Nebogatov (1849).

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