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Eduard Shevardnadze

1928 - 2014

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Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze started his political career in the late 1940s as a leading member of his local Komsomol organisation. He was later appointed its Second Secretary, then its First Secretary. His rise in the Georgian Soviet hierarchy continued until 1961 when he was demoted after he insulted a senior official. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Shevardnadze is the 510th most popular politician (up from 565th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Georgia and the 4th most popular Georgian Politician.

Shevardnadze was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union and then for independent Georgia. He is most famous for his role in the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 510 out of 19,576. Before him are Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tolui, Kocheril R. Narayanan, Arcadius, and Razia Sultana. After him are Omar al-Bashir, Jawaharlal Nehru, Józef Piłsudski, Kangxi Emperor, Djoser, and Hideki Tojo.

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Among people born in 1928, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 10. Before him are Andy Warhol, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Stanley Kubrick, Ariel Sharon, and Noam Chomsky. After him are Jean-Marie Le Pen, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Serge Gainsbourg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joe Jackson, and Didi. Among people deceased in 2014, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 6. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Robin Williams, Eusébio, and Ariel Sharon. After him are Hiroo Onoda, Gough Whitlam, Claudio Abbado, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, and Eli Wallach.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 5 out of 406. Before him are Joseph Stalin (1879), Darius the Great (-550), Attila (406), and Aram Khachaturian (1903). After him are Shota Rustaveli (1172), Tamar of Georgia (1166), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Tigran Petrosian (1929), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), and Sergei Parajanov (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In Georgia

Among politicians born in Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Stalin (1879), Darius the Great (-550), and Attila (406). After him are Tamar of Georgia (1166), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), Kato Svanidze (1885), Mikheil Saakashvili (1967), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), David IV of Georgia (1073), Sergei Witte (1849), and Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1886).

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