1895 - 1955
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. Blokhin was hand-picked for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign, mostly during the Great Purge and Eastern Front of World War II. Blokhin is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner in recorded world history. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Blokhin has received more than 1,004,248 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vasily Blokhin is the 2,239th most popular politician (up from 2,645th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Russia (up from 264th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Russian Politician.
Vasily Blokhin was a Soviet military officer and Nazi collaborator who was the head of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Lviv during the German occupation of Ukraine. He is most famous for his role in the Babi Yar massacre, where he was responsible for killing more than 30,000 Jews.
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Among politicians, Vasily Blokhin ranks 2,239 out of 15,577. Before him are Alfonso the Battler, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Al-Mutawakkil, Henry III of Castile, Henry X, Duke of Bavaria, and Fahri Korutürk. After him are Louis, Prince of Condé, Nicias, Öljaitü, King Zhuangxiang of Qin, Houari Boumédiène, and Aemilianus.
1073 - 1134
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,233
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,234
822 - 861
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,235
1379 - 1406
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,236
1108 - 1139
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,237
1903 - 1987
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,238
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 2,239
1530 - 1569
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2,240
500 BC - 413 BC
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2,241
1280 - 1316
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2,242
281 BC - 247 BC
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2,243
1932 - 1978
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2,244
207 - 253
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2,245
Among people born in 1895, Vasily Blokhin ranks 45. Before him are Machine Gun Kelly, László Moholy-Nagy, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Jürgen Stroop. After him are Albert Göring, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Buckminster Fuller, Dorothea Lange, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, and Augusto César Sandino. Among people deceased in 1955, Vasily Blokhin ranks 19. Before him are Rodolfo Graziani, Helmuth Weidling, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Utrillo, Paul Claudel, and George Enescu. After him are Calouste Gulbenkian, Oswald Avery, Carmen Miranda, James B. Sumner, Hermann Weyl, and Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria.
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 39
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 40
1895 - 1952
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 41
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 42
1895 - 1972
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 43
1895 - 1952
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 44
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 45
1895 - 1966
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 46
1895 - 1973
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 47
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 48
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 49
1895 - 1935
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 50
1895 - 1934
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 51
1882 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 13
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 14
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 15
1883 - 1955
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 16
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 17
1881 - 1955
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 18
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 19
1869 - 1955
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 20
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 21
1909 - 1955
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 22
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 23
1885 - 1955
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 24
1869 - 1955
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 25
Among people born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 224 out of 3,262. Before him are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), and Gherman Titov (1935). After him are Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), and Mikhail Mishustin (1966).
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 218
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 219
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 220
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 221
1866 - 1887
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 222
1935 - 2000
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 223
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 224
1669 - 1731
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 225
1532 - 1585
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 226
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 227
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 228
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 229
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 230
Among politicians born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 76. Before him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), and Vasily II of Moscow (1415). After him are Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Gustav Bauer (1870), Lyudmila Putina (1958), and Vasily I of Moscow (1371).
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 70
1902 - 1982
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 71
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 72
1282 - 1341
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 73
1288 - 1340
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 74
1415 - 1462
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 75
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 76
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 77
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 78
1847 - 1909
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 79
1870 - 1944
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 80
1958 - Present
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 81
1371 - 1425
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 82