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Alexander Zakharchenko

1976 - 2018

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Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a pro-Russian separatist leader who was the Russia-installed head of state and prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state and Russian-backed rebel group which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014. Zakharchenko was killed in August 2018 when a bomb exploded in a café that he frequently visited in Donetsk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2024). Alexander Zakharchenko is the 14,711th most popular politician (down from 12,978th in 2024), the 742nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 623rd in 2019) and the 179th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Zakharchenko ranks 14,711 out of 19,576. Before him are Luis Durnwalder, Lucius Aemilius Barbula, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Feliciano Viera, Eriba-Marduk, and Bahi Ladgham. After him are Justin Lekhanya, He Xiangning, Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar, William Roth, V. N. Janaki, and Lydie Polfer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Alexander Zakharchenko ranks 127. Before him are Coralie Fargeat, Damir Skomina, Feist, Virginie Ledoyen, Mick Blue, and Princess Marie of Denmark. After him are Marcelo Gallardo, Koji Okamoto, Rhona Mitra, Ali Larter, Song Seung-heon, and Ji Yun-nam. Among people deceased in 2018, Alexander Zakharchenko ranks 333. Before him are Paddy Ashdown, Shuhrat Abbosov, Adolf Grünbaum, István Géczi, John Julius Norwich, and Warwick Estevam Kerr. After him are Neagu Djuvara, Robby Müller, Nh. Dini, Jon Hiseman, Vanessa Marquez, and Marty Balin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko ranks 742 out of 1,365. Before him are Nikolai Gikalo (1897), Moriz Rosenthal (1862), Jan Szczepanik (1872), Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Alexander Litovchenko (1835), and Mikhail Kheraskov (1733). After him are Abraham Lempel (1936), Anna Muzychuk (1990), Volodymyr Pravyk (1962), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Antonina Nezhdanova (1873), and Lidiya Ponomarenko (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko ranks 179. Before him are Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Denis Pushilin (1981), Dmitry Polyansky (1917), Volodymyr Lytvyn (1956), Dmitry Sipyagin (1853), and Nikolai Gikalo (1897). After him are Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865), Ruslan Khomchak (1967), Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876), Oleh Tyahnybok (1968), Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), and Izyaslav of Polotsk (980).

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