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Viktor Chernomyrdin

1938 - 2010

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Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrnɐˈmɨrdʲɪn]; 9 April 1938 – 3 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union (13 February 1985 – 17 July 1989), after which he became first chairman of Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s and a participant in the transition from a planned to a market economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Chernomyrdin has received more than 511,047 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Viktor Chernomyrdin is the 24th most popular diplomat (down from 23rd in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Russia (down from 250th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Diplomat.

Viktor Chernomyrdin is most famous for being the Prime Minister of Russia from 1992 to 1998. He was instrumental in Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy.

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  • 63.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Viktor Chernomyrdin ranks 24 out of 90. Before him are Alva Myrdal, Antony Blinken, Hasekura Tsunenaga, George F. Kennan, Chiune Sugihara, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. After him are Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, Édith Cresson, Irina Bokova, Hans Blix, and Alfonso García Robles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Viktor Chernomyrdin ranks 52. Before him are Jean Giraud, Jiří Menzel, Alpha Condé, Raymond Carver, Ayaz Mutallibov, and Kurt Wüthrich. After him are Frederick Forsyth, Issey Miyake, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, and Brian Dennehy. Among people deceased in 2010, Viktor Chernomyrdin ranks 28. Before him are Gennady Yanayev, Francesco Cossiga, Bruno Cremer, Alois Brunner, Dino De Laurentiis, and Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. After him are Harry Mulisch, Louise Bourgeois, Stjepan Bobek, Miep Gies, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Alice Miller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Chernomyrdin ranks 275 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856). After him are Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Andrei Grechko (1903), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), and Varlam Shalamov (1907).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Russia

Among diplomats born in Russia, Viktor Chernomyrdin ranks 2. Before him are Alexandra Kollontai (1872). After him are Vatslav Vorovsky (1871), Max Jakobson (1923), and Vasily Nebenzya (1962).

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