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Vyacheslav Molotov

1890 - 1986

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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (né Skryabin; 9 March [O. S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (head of government) from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 during the era of the Second World War, and again from 1953 to 1956. An Old Bolshevik, Molotov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 and was arrested and internally exiled twice before the October Revolution of 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vyacheslav Molotov has received more than 5,637,640 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Vyacheslav Molotov is the 317th most popular politician (down from 289th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Russia (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Politician.

Vyacheslav Molotov was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949. He is most famous for negotiating the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vyacheslav Molotov ranks 317 out of 19,576Before him are Gerald Ford, Louis XII of France, Croesus, Djoser, Alexander Dubček, and Turhan Hatice Sultan. After him are Ivar the Boneless, Crazy Horse, Elizabeth of Russia, Charles V of France, Shivaji, and Paul I of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Vyacheslav Molotov ranks 7Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Agatha Christie, H. P. Lovecraft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, and Friedrich Paulus. After him are Boris Pasternak, Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, Fritz Lang, and Kurt Lewin. Among people deceased in 1986, Vyacheslav Molotov ranks 4Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Wallis Simpson, and Jorge Luis Borges. After him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Olof Palme, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, and Jean Genet.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Molotov ranks 44 out of 3,761Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), and Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627). After him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vyacheslav Molotov ranks 18Before him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627). After him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Paul I of Russia (1754), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Rurik (830), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), and Yaroslav the Wise (978).