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Yevgeny Primakov

1929 - 2015

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Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015, Russian pronunciation: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj mɐˈksʲiməvʲɪtɕ prʲɪmɐˈkof]) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998, the Director of Foreign Intelligence from 1991 to 1996, and Speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Primakov has received more than 606,426 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Yevgeny Primakov is the 2,750th most popular politician (down from 2,520th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 90th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Yevgeny Primakov is most famous for being the Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. He was also the Foreign Minister of Russia from 1990 to 1996.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yevgeny Primakov ranks 2,750 out of 19,576. Before him are William I of Württemberg, Quirinius, Sandro Pertini, Empress Xiaoyichun, Milan Nedić, and Tokugawa Iemitsu. After him are César Gaviria, Liu Bian, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, King Xiaowen of Qin, Hayme Hatun, and Jacques Santer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yevgeny Primakov ranks 51. Before him are Helmut Rahn, Eric Kandel, Werner Arber, Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, and Christa Wolf. After him are Gudrun Burwitz, Karolos Papoulias, Günter Schabowski, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Murray Gell-Mann, and Ralf Dahrendorf. Among people deceased in 2015, Yevgeny Primakov ranks 41. Before him are Oliver Sacks, Douglass North, Boris Nemtsov, Yoichiro Nambu, Alcides Ghiggia, and Wes Craven. After him are Günter Schabowski, Colleen McCullough, James Last, Faten Hamama, Frei Otto, and René Girard.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yevgeny Primakov ranks 106 out of 1,365. Before him are Roman Shukhevych (1907), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), John Demjanjuk (1920), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Lev Shestov (1866). After him are Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), Boris Shcherbina (1919), and Ivan Paskevich (1782).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Yevgeny Primakov ranks 36. Before him are Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Karl Radek (1885), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), and Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886). After him are Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), and Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050).

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