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Alexei Rykov

1881 - 1938

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Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge. Rykov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, and after it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions in 1903, he joined the Bolsheviks, which were led by Vladimir Lenin. He played an active part in the 1905 Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexei Rykov is the 1,506th most popular politician (down from 1,258th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Russia (down from 133rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Russian Politician.

Alexei Rykov was a Russian politician who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1924 to 1930. He also served as the first Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1933 to 1936.

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Among politicians, Alexei Rykov ranks 1,506 out of 19,576. Before him are Mohammed Shahabuddin, John IV of Portugal, Eleftherios Venizelos, Constantine VI, Mausolus, and Ladislaus I of Hungary. After him are Manuel Noriega, Fritz Sauckel, Ælfweard of Wessex, Pelagius of Asturias, John McCain, and Stjepan Mesić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alexei Rykov ranks 26. Before him are Hermann Staudinger, Ludwig von Mises, Hans Fischer, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Fernand Léger, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. After him are Erwin von Witzleben, Asta Nielsen, Irving Langmuir, Alcide De Gasperi, Ettore Bugatti, and L. E. J. Brouwer. Among people deceased in 1938, Alexei Rykov ranks 18. Before him are Nikolai Bukharin, Kanō Jigorō, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Karl Kautsky. After him are Genrikh Yagoda, Carl von Ossietzky, Suzanne Valadon, Christian Lous Lange, Osip Mandelstam, and Suzanne Lenglen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexei Rykov ranks 137 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Valery Legasov (1936), Alexei Kosygin (1904), and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893). After him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Ivan V of Russia (1666), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Walther Funk (1890), and Joseph Brodsky (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexei Rykov ranks 49. Before him are Feodor III of Russia (1661), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893). After him are Ivan V of Russia (1666), Walther Funk (1890), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Feodor II of Russia (1589), and Raisa Gorbacheva (1932).

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