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Gennady Zyuganov

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Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who is a perennial candidate in the Russian presidential elections. He has also served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most controversially in 1996, when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Zyuganov is the 2,737th most popular politician (down from 2,269th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Russia (down from 214th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Russian Politician.

Gennady Zyuganov is most famous for being the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1990 to 1996.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gennady Zyuganov ranks 2,737 out of 19,576Before him are Li Hongzhang, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Mario Beccaria, Eric XII of Sweden, Jehoram of Israel, and Bolesław Bierut. After him are Theobald I of Navarre, Hermann von Salza, Rinchinbal Khan, Rajiv Gandhi, Albert IV, Duke of Austria, and Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Gennady Zyuganov ranks 59Before him are Robert Kardashian, Nick Mason, George Graham, Erwin Neher, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Claudia Mori. After him are Rajiv Gandhi, Abdul Hamid, Harold Ramis, Sondra Locke, Gérard Mourou, and Mairead Maguire.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Zyuganov ranks 234 out of 3,761Before him are Gherman Titov (1935), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), and Nikolay Basov (1922). After him are Stenka Razin (1630), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), Michel Fokine (1880), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Aleksandr Dugin (1962).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gennady Zyuganov ranks 75Before him are Mikhail Suslov (1902), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Gustav Bauer (1870), Viktor Zubkov (1941), and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657). After him are Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), and Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848).