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Andrei Gromyko

1909 - 1989

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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (18 July [O.S. 5 July] 1909 – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s, Western pundits called him Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2024). Andrei Gromyko is the 1,220th most popular politician (up from 1,287th in 2024), the 9th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 10th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belarusian Politician.

Andrei Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1957 to 1985. He is most famous for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Among politicians, Andrei Gromyko ranks 1,220 out of 19,576. Before him are Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Dost Mohammad Khan, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Wilm Hosenfeld, Christian I of Denmark, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. After him are Helmut Schmidt, 5th Dalai Lama, Tiberius Claudius Nero, Amr ibn Hishām, Pepi II Neferkare, and Patrice de MacMahon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Andrei Gromyko ranks 12. Before him are Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, and Francis Bacon. After him are Rita Levi-Montalcini, Peter Drucker, Kwame Nkrumah, Victor Borge, Stanislaw Ulam, and Mohammed V of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1989, Andrei Gromyko ranks 18. Before him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Andrei Sakharov, George Beadle, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Elena Ceaușescu, and János Kádár. After him are Lee Van Cleef, Bette Davis, Emilio Segrè, Laurence Olivier, Osamu Tezuka, and Dolores Ibárruri.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Andrei Gromyko ranks 9 out of 368. Before him are Lev Vygotsky (1896), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Menachem Begin (1913), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), and Chaim Weizmann (1874). After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), and Olga Korbut (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Andrei Gromyko ranks 6. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Menachem Begin (1913), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), and Chaim Weizmann (1874). After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Zalman Shazar (1889), Isser Harel (1912), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), and Mstislav I of Kiev (1076).

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