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Lev Mekhlis

1889 - 1953

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Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (Russian: Лев Заха́рович Ме́хлис; 13 January 1889 – 13 February 1953) was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1942. As a senior political commissar, he became one of the main Stavka representatives on the Eastern Front (1941–1945) during World War II, being involved successively with five to seven Soviet fronts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Mekhlis is the 10,653rd most popular politician (down from 9,976th in 2024), the 421st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 407th in 2019) and the 119th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lev Mekhlis ranks 10,653 out of 19,576. Before him are Arthur Griffith, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Erik Gustaf Boström, Kamehameha V, Tsuda Umeko, and Constantine II, King of Armenia. After him are Shepenupet I, Pietro Lando, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Agathokleia, David Duke, and Robert H. Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Lev Mekhlis ranks 124. Before him are Ludwig Kübler, Khudiram Bose, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Charles Kay Ogden, and Sewall Wright. After him are Baba Sali, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Dietrich von Hildebrand, James Stephenson, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, and Adolphe Pégoud. Among people deceased in 1953, Lev Mekhlis ranks 84. Before him are Xu Beihong, Vladimir Dekanozov, Jorge Negrete, Joseph Jongen, Şükrü Saracoğlu, and Hilaire Belloc. After him are Alexander Vasiliev, Josef Fischer, Hans Aanrud, Albert Austin, Friedrich Wolf, and Uroš Predić.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Mekhlis ranks 421 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Poddubny (1871), Leonid Kanevsky (1939), Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757), Polina Astakhova (1936), and Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914). After him are Anatoliy Byshovets (1946), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Onufriy (1944), and Leonid Kizim (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Lev Mekhlis ranks 119. Before him are Yulia Svyrydenko (1985), Yevgenia Bosch (1879), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Victor Kravchenko (1905), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), and Polina Astakhova (1936). After him are Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849), Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), Roman Rudenko (1907), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), and Andrey Razumovsky (1752).

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