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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 504,472 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Kryuchkov is the 3,596th most popular politician (down from 3,364th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Russia (down from 329th in 2019) and the 112th 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 3,596 out of 15,577Before him are Alexios I of Trebizond, John, Elector of Saxony, Masamune, Muhammad al-Nasir, Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, and Kato Svanidze. After him are Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Ebrahim Raisi, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Ferdinand II of León, and Blanche II of Navarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 51Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Guy Williams, Luigi Nono, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Madame Nhu, and Lee Iacocca. After him are Georges Prêtre, Giovanni Sartori, Bulat Okudzhava, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Eduardo Chillida, and Roberto Eduardo Viola. Among people deceased in 2007, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 36Before him are Paul Lauterbur, Stanley Miller, Lois Maxwell, Marcheline Bertrand, Henri Troyat, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. After him are Arthur Kornberg, Paul Watzlawick, Jane Wyman, Robert Jordan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Jean-Claude Brialy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 364 out of 3,262Before him are Galina Ulanova (1910), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Henri Troyat (1911), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), and Vasily Dokuchaev (1846). After him are Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vera Menchik (1906), Jani Beg (1300), Ivan Serov (1905), and Lovis Corinth (1858).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov ranks 112Before him are Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Yury of Moscow (1281), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), and Yakov Yurovsky (1878). After him are Jani Beg (1300), Ivan Serov (1905), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Ivan Silayev (1930), Boris Nemtsov (1959), and Anna Dostoevskaya (1846).