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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasili Mitrokhin has received more than 462,984 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vasili Mitrokhin is the 823rd most popular military personnel (up from 994th in 2019), the 715th most popular biography from Russia (up from 871st in 2019) and the 64th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 823 out of 1,468. Before him are Artabazos II, Markos Botsaris, Wilhelm Souchon, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, and Takasugi Shinsaku. After him are Erhard Raus, Karl Frenzel, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Oda Nobutaka, Mikhail Miloradovich, and Yakov Pavlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 130. Before him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Dana Zátopková, Gershon Kingsley, Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, and Raymond Franz. After him are Eleanor Parker, Sōsuke Uno, Manolis Glezos, Yuri Knorozov, Charles M. Schulz, and Kevin Roche. Among people deceased in 2004, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 84. Before him are Umberto Agnelli, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Eddie Adams, Saizo Saito, Gordon Cooper, and Fay Wray. After him are Frances Shand Kydd, Anthony Steffen, Zenkō Suzuki, Uta Hagen, Philip Abelson, and Chiang Fang-liang.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 715 out of 3,262. Before him are Yuri Norstein (1941), Otto Braun (1872), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Pavel Tretyakov (1832), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827). After him are Platon Zubov (1767), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Yakov Pavlov (1917), Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (1827), and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin ranks 64. Before him are Boris Sheremetev (1652), Nikolay Voronov (1899), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Boris Gromov (1943), Yekaterina Budanova (1916), and Dietrich von Saucken (1892). After him are Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Yakov Pavlov (1917), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896), Alexey Maresyev (1916), and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777).

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