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Vasili Mitrokhin

1922 - 2004

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Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Ники́тич Митро́хин, romanized: Vasily Nikitich Mitrokhin; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of his notes purporting to be written copies of KGB files. These became known as the Mitrokhin Archives. The intelligence files given by Mitrokhin to the MI6 exposed an unknown number of Soviet agents, including Melita Norwood.He was co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasili Mitrokhin has received more than 458,560 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Vasili Mitrokhin is the 903rd most popular military personnel (down from 823rd in 2019), the 753rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 713th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Vasili Mitrokhin has had the most page views in the with 49,739 views, followed by Russian (23,670), and French (7,074). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (109.48%), Icelandic (64.20%), and Egyptian Arabic (60.99%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 903 out of 2,058. Before him are Marcantonio Colonna, John C. Woods, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Fakhri Pasha, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, and Walther von Lüttwitz. After him are Yevgeny Miller, Henry Allingham, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Hans Loritz, Gainas, and Hydarnes II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 139. Before him are Cyd Charisse, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, András Hegedüs, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Russ Meyer, and Dana Zátopková. After him are Elissa Aalto, Fikret Amirov, Dilip Kumar, Tadeusz Borowski, Manolis Glezos, and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. Among people deceased in 2004, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 93. Before him are Shiing-Shen Chern, Russ Meyer, John Maynard Smith, Zenkō Suzuki, Anthony Steffen, and Mercedes McCambridge. After him are Laura Betti, Umberto Agnelli, René Laloux, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Jean Lefebvre, and M. S. Subbulakshmi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 753 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Afanasy Fet (1820), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), and Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854). After him are Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754), Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), and Aleksandra Potanina (1843).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 68. Before him are Vasily Petrov (1917), Walter Weiß (1890), Ivan Panfilov (1893), Joseph Trumpeldor (1880), Boris Gromov (1943), and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777). After him are Karl Lennart Oesch (1892), Alexey Kaledin (1861), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Anatoly Stessel (1848), and Nikolai Berzarin (1904).

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