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Vasily Blokhin

1895 - 1955

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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 selected 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 1,057,837 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Blokhin is the 3,472nd most popular politician (down from 2,231st in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Russia (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 103rd 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

Among politicians, Vasily Blokhin ranks 3,472 out of 19,576. Before him are Daji, Paul Deschanel, Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, Nouri al-Maliki, Abimelech, and Al-Ashraf Khalil. After him are Theresa, Countess of Portugal, Taira no Kiyomori, Albert Azaryan, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Xiao He, and Chen Duxiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Vasily Blokhin ranks 61. Before him are Dickinson W. Richards, Pavel Sukhoi, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Kurt Zeitzler. After him are Wilhelm Kempff, Richard Barthelmess, Clara Haskil, B. H. Liddell Hart, Friedrich Jeckeln, and Marcel Pagnol. Among people deceased in 1955, Vasily Blokhin ranks 30. Before him are Hermann Weyl, Oswald Avery, Garegin Nzhdeh, Leonid Govorov, Mihály Károlyi, and Michael Chekhov. After him are Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Cordell Hull, and Alexander Wienerberger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 336 out of 3,761. Before him are Michel Fokine (1880), Dmitry of Uglich (1582), Simeon of Moscow (1316), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), and Alexander Griboyedov (1795). After him are Valeri Polyakov (1942), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), and Genndy Tartakovsky (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 103. Before him are Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Yury of Moscow (1281), and Simeon of Moscow (1316). After him are Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Grigory Orlov (1734), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), and Ivan Silayev (1930).

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