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Lazar Kaganovich

1893 - 1991

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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; 22 November [O.S. 10 November] 1893 – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1911. During and after the 1917 October Revolution, he held leading positions in Bolshevik organizations in Belarus and Russia, and helped consolidate Soviet rule in Turkestan. In 1922, Stalin placed Kaganovich in charge of an organizational department of the Communist Party, assisting the former in consolidating his grip on the party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lazar Kaganovich is the 1,873rd most popular politician (down from 1,598th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Lazar Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and engineer who was responsible for many of the industrialization projects in the Soviet Union, including the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. He was also one of the most influential members of the Soviet leadership.

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Among politicians, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 1,873 out of 19,576. Before him are Peter II of Courtenay, Hiram I, Cyrus the Younger, Richard Cromwell, Mongkut, and Baasha of Israel. After him are Henry II of Navarre, Marine Le Pen, Muawiya II, Nicolás Maduro, Briseis, and Romanos III Argyros.

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Among people born in 1893, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 19. Before him are Carol II of Romania, Soong Ching-ling, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Draža Mihailović, and Albert Szent-Györgyi. After him are Roland Freisler, Chaim Soutine, Harold Lloyd, Harold Urey, Karl Mannheim, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Among people deceased in 1991, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 20. Before him are Jiang Qing, Graham Greene, John Bardeen, Miles Davis, Frank Capra, and Marcel Lefebvre. After him are Ragnar Granit, Soichiro Honda, Oona O'Neill, Margot Fonteyn, David Lean, and Max Frisch.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 66 out of 1,365. Before him are Selman Waksman (1888), David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), and Ivan Franko (1856). After him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), and Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Lazar Kaganovich ranks 25. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Symon Petliura (1879), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Moshe Sharett (1894), and Levi Eshkol (1895). After him are Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Sergey Bubka (1963), and Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886).

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