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Yegor Gaidar

1956 - 2009

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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (; Russian: Егор Тимурович Гайдар, IPA: [jɪˈɡor tʲɪˈmurəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐjˈdar]; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992. He was the architect of the controversial shock therapy reforms administered in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which brought him both praise and harsh criticism. He participated in the preparation of the Belovezha Accords. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yegor Gaidar has received more than 514,733 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Yegor Gaidar is the 8,077th most popular politician (up from 8,507th in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 842nd in 2019) and the 222nd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yegor Gaidar ranks 8,077 out of 19,576. Before him are Titus Flavius Clemens, Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti, Lubomír Štrougal, Jacob Tullin Thams, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Maria of Courtenay. After him are Temür Qutlugh, Antonis Samaras, Ferruccio Parri, Claudia Marcella Major, Costas Simitis, and Nguyễn Văn Linh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Yegor Gaidar ranks 101. Before him are Philip Kerr, Elie Hobeika, Gianni De Biasi, Hans van Breukelen, King Diamond, and Luis Guzmán. After him are William J. Burns, El Risitas, Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga, Horacio Cartes, Kazuyo Sejima, and Sebastian Coe. Among people deceased in 2009, Yegor Gaidar ranks 97. Before him are Edward Schillebeeckx, Hélio Gracie, Vasily Aksyonov, Eleanor F. Helin, Henry Allingham, and Samak Sundaravej. After him are Susanna Agnelli, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Félix Malloum, Al Martino, Joseph Wiseman, and Marilyn Chambers.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yegor Gaidar ranks 772 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexey Kaledin (1861), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Tamanian (1878), and Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850). After him are Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Mintimer Shaimiev (1937), and Boris Shakhlin (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Yegor Gaidar ranks 222. Before him are Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754), Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), Mikhail Speransky (1772), and Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850). After him are Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), Mintimer Shaimiev (1937), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Ivan Goremykin (1839), and Prince Paul of Württemberg (1785).

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