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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vlado Chernozemski

1897 - 1934

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Vlado Chernozemski (Bulgarian: Владо Черноземски; born Velichko Dimitrov Kerin, Bulgarian: Величко Димитров Керин; 19 October 1897 – 9 October 1934), was a Bulgarian revolutionary and assassin. Also known as "Vlado the Chauffeur", Chernozemski is considered a hero in Bulgaria today. The official historiography in North Macedonia regards him as a controversial Bulgarian.Chernozemski began his revolutionary activities in 1922 when he joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Soon after, he became an assassin for the IMRO. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vlado Chernozemski has received more than 414,786 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Vlado Chernozemski is the 107th most popular social activist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Bulgarian Social Activist.

Vlado Chernozemski is most famous for his role in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chernozemski was a worker at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant who, on the night of April 26th, 1986, was instructed to turn off the control rods that were being used to stop the nuclear reaction in reactor number four. The rods were turned off, but the reactor continued to overheat, leading to a rupture in the reactor and a series of explosions. Chernozemski was one of the few people to survive the disaster.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vlado Chernozemski ranks 107 out of 538Before him are Emilia Plater, An Jung-geun, Susan B. Anthony, José Rizal, Zhang Jue, and Yun Chi-ho. After him are Kim Hyong-jik, Paul Schäfer, Frank Costello, Mordechai Anielewicz, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and Jody Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Vlado Chernozemski ranks 41Before him are John Franklin Enders, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Kirill Meretskov, Paul Delvaux, Margaret Mahler, and Plaek Phibunsongkhram. After him are Joseph Berchtold, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Gershom Scholem, Leonid Govorov, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Emil Maurice. Among people deceased in 1934, Vlado Chernozemski ranks 25Before him are Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Edmond James de Rothschild, Alice Liddell, Louis Barthou, Augusto César Sandino, and Marinus van der Lubbe. After him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Jean Vigo, Carl von Linde, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Nicholas Marr, and Siegbert Tarrasch.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Vlado Chernozemski ranks 29 out of 372Before him are Hristo Stoichkov (1966), Fritz Zwicky (1898), Sylvie Vartan (1944), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), and Ratko Janev (1939). After him are Christian Rakovsky (1873), Vasil Levski (1837), Aleksandar Stamboliyski (1879), Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1350), Peter I of Bulgaria (927), and Rumen Radev (1963).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Bulgaria

Among social activists born in Bulgaria, Vlado Chernozemski ranks 1After him are Vasil Levski (1837) and Dimitrana Ivanova (1881).