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Vladimir Kryuchkov

1924 - 2007

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Крючко́в; 29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007) was a Soviet lawyer, diplomat, and head of the KGB, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Initially working in the Soviet justice system as a prosecutor's assistant, Kryuchkov then graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Foreign Ministry and became a diplomat. During his years in the foreign service, he met Yuri Andropov, who became his main patron. From 1974 until 1988, Kryuchkov headed the foreign intelligence branch of the KGB, the First Chief Directorate (PGU). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Kryuchkov has received more than 536,728 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vladimir Kryuchkov is the 4,017th most popular politician (down from 3,586th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 114th most popular Russian Politician.

Vladimir Kryuchkov was the head of the KGB in the Soviet Union. He was most famous for his role in the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 4,017 out of 19,576. Before him are Kayqubad III, Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Balash, and Kim Kyong-hui. After him are Ayşe Sultan, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Zhelyu Zhelev, Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal, Aleksander Čeferin, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 57. Before him are Israel Tal, Francisco Macías Nguema, James Black, Michel Tournier, Giovanni Sartori, and Ante Marković. After him are Dorothy Malone, Guy Williams, Bulat Okudzhava, John Backus, Ahmadou Ahidjo, and Ephraim Kishon. Among people deceased in 2007, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 39. Before him are Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, Momofuku Ando, Alan MacDiarmid, Henri Troyat, and Oscar Peterson. After him are Lois Maxwell, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Jean-Claude Brialy, Paul Watzlawick, Norman Mailer, and Gaston Thorn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 382 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822). After him are Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Viktor Tsoi (1962), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), and George Ostrogorsky (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 114. Before him are Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Ivan Silayev (1930), Mengu-Timur (1235), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Chung Il-kwon (1917), and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822). After him are Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), Jani Beg (1300), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), and Yakov Yurovsky (1878).

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