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Gevork Vartanian

1924 - 2012

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Gevork Andreevich Vartanian (Armenian: Գևորգ Վարդանյան, Russian: Гево́рк Андре́евич Вартаня́н; 17 February 1924 – 10 January 2012) was a Soviet intelligence officer. He was primarily responsible, together with his wife Goar Vartanian, for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an alleged attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gevork Vartanian is the 11,559th most popular politician (down from 10,525th in 2019), the 1,138th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,091st in 2019) and the 316th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gevork Vartanian ranks 11,559 out of 19,576. Before him are Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Ivan Fedyuninsky, Fatima Sheikh, Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia, and Giovanni Dolfin. After him are Héctor Trujillo, Boris Stürmer, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Kazimierz Bartel, Alopen, and George of Antioch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Gevork Vartanian ranks 216. Before him are Robert Webber, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Bocharova, Leon Uris, Gohar Gasparyan, and Ramón Castro Ruz. After him are Nina Foch, Jaime Lusinchi, Janet Frame, Genichi Taguchi, Ferdinando Terruzzi, and Charles Coste. Among people deceased in 2012, Gevork Vartanian ranks 184. Before him are Kaneto Shindo, Ruggiero Ricci, José María Zárraga, Vicar, Elliott Carter, and George Kerr. After him are Takeshi Urata, Genichi Taguchi, Georges Mathieu, Avraham Adan, Roald Aas, and Carlo Rambaldi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 1,138 out of 3,761. Before him are Feodosia Morozova (1632), Alexander Chavchavadze (1786), Oleg Kalugin (1934), Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878), and Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900). After him are Boris Stürmer (1848), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), and Alexander Yakovlev (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gevork Vartanian ranks 316. Before him are Yegor Ligachyov (1920), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877), Vladislav Surkov (1964), Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878), and Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900). After him are Boris Stürmer (1848), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Alexander Yakovlev (1923), Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Natalia Gutman (1942), and Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887).

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