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Alexander Orlov

1895 - 1973

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Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Орлов, born Leiba Leyzerovich Feldbin, later Lev Lazarevich Nikolsky, and in the US assuming the name of Igor Konstantinovich Berg; 21 August 1895 – 25 March 1973), was a colonel in the Soviet secret police and NKVD Rezident in the Second Spanish Republic. In 1938, Orlov refused to return to the Soviet Union due to fears of execution, and instead fled with his family to the United States. He is mostly known for secretly transporting the entire Spanish gold reserves to the USSR in exchange for military aid for Spanish Republic and for his book, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Orlov is the 8,674th most popular politician (down from 6,708th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 55th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Belarusian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Orlov ranks 8,674 out of 19,576. Before him are Galeazzo I Visconti, Lubomír Štrougal, Zhang Wentian, Urbano Rattazzi, Edmund Heines, and Emperor An of Jin. After him are Maria, wife of Constantine V, Garret Hobart, Wanyan Liang, Eduard Strasburger, Bertha of Sulzbach, and Giric.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Alexander Orlov ranks 110. Before him are Josef Bürckel, Lewis Mumford, Heinrich Eberbach, Albert Cohen, Kirsten Flagstad, and Martin Luther. After him are Matthew Ridgway, Rolf Nevanlinna, Paul Giesler, Carl Lutz, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, and Jacques Brugnon. Among people deceased in 1973, Alexander Orlov ranks 100. Before him are Alois Hába, Fuad Chehab, Frank Jack Fletcher, Johannes Aavik, Jack Hawkins, and Tanzan Ishibashi. After him are Yaakov Dori, Ramón de la Fuente Leal, Roger Williamson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Noël Coward, and Clas Thunberg.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Alexander Orlov ranks 65 out of 368. Before him are Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Abba Kovner (1918), Oscar Milosz (1877), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), Antoine Pevsner (1884), and Aleksander Chodźko (1804). After him are Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856), Juliusz Rómmel (1881), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Oscar Zariski (1899), and Władysław Strzemiński (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Alexander Orlov ranks 23. Before him are Lucjan Żeligowski (1865), Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Yevno Azef (1869), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Lew Sapieha (1557), and Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515). After him are Ivonka Survilla (1936), Myechyslaw Hryb (1938), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Mikhail Myasnikovich (1950), and Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836).

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