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Volodymyr Shcherbytsky

1918 - 1990

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Volodymyr Vasyliovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 – 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. A close ally of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Shcherbytsky replaced reformist leader Petro Shelest in 1972 as part of a crackdown on the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Shcherbytsky ruled as a neo-Stalinist, overseeing Russification of Ukrainian society as well as a rapid shift to nuclear power, ultimately resulting in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Volodymyr Shcherbytsky has received more than 192,313 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Volodymyr Shcherbytsky is the 5,920th most popular politician (down from 5,683rd in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 200th in 2019) and the 70th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 5,920 out of 19,576. Before him are John I, Duke of Alençon, Jan Peter Balkenende, Ron Paul, Ordoño III of León, Archduchess Barbara of Austria, and 'Abd al-Ilah. After him are Cyrus Vance, Boris Pugo, Sayf al-Din Ghazi I, Kandalanu, Emperor Daigo, and Lennart Bernadotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 77. Before him are João Figueiredo, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Spiro Agnew, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Fernando Peyroteo. After him are Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Jin Youzhi, Henry Calvin, Philip José Farmer, Theodore Sturgeon, and Choi Hong Hi. Among people deceased in 1990, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 60. Before him are Philippe Soupault, Sammy Davis Jr., Aaron Copland, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Stevie Ray Vaughan, and John Stewart Bell. After him are Jim Henson, Tadeusz Kantor, Arthur Kennedy, Samuel Noah Kramer, Lewis Mumford, and Nicola Abbagnano.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 215 out of 1,365. Before him are Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Yaakov Dori (1899), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), and Waldemar Haffkine (1860). After him are Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Filaret (1929), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), and Leonid Pasternak (1862).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 70. Before him are Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Michael of Chernigov (1185), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), and Yaakov Dori (1899). After him are Alexandru Averescu (1859), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), and Natan Sharansky (1948).

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