SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Maria Nikiforova

1885 - 1919

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Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova (Ukrainian: Марія Григорівна Нікіфорова; 1885–1919) was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader who led the Black Guards during the Ukrainian War of Independence, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha. A self-described terrorist from the age of 16, she was imprisoned for her activities in Russia before managing to escape to western Europe. With the outbreak of World War I, she took up the defencist line and joined the French Foreign Legion on the Macedonian front before returning to Ukraine with the outbreak of the 1917 Revolution. In her home city of Oleksandrivsk (today Zaporizhzhia), she established an anarchist combat detachment and subsequently attacked the forces of the Russian Provisional Government and the Ukrainian People's Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Nikiforova is the 380th most popular social activist (down from 376th in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 530th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Maria Nikiforova ranks 380 out of 840Before her are Baba Amte, Bipin Chandra Pal, Wei Jingsheng, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Leonard Peltier, and Flora Brovina. After her are Tuvia Bielski, Meshadi Azizbekov, Anatoly Marchenko, Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, Dimitrana Ivanova, and Marianne Hainisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Maria Nikiforova ranks 138Before her are Sun Chuanfang, Eino Rahja, Friedrich Kirchner, Ralph Rose, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, and Juhan Kukk. After her are Anna Hübler, John Curtin, Paul Leni, Egon Wellesz, Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, and Boris Vilkitsky. Among people deceased in 1919, Maria Nikiforova ranks 101Before her are Richard Bergh, Akashi Motojiro, Franz Nissl, Evgraf Fedorov, Frederick DuCane Godman, and Paul Deussen. After her are Woldemar Voigt, John Alcock, Victorino de la Plaza, Franz Steindachner, Ernest von Koerber, and Pavel Chistyakov.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Maria Nikiforova ranks 526 out of 1,365Before her are Oles Honchar (1918), Sergei Stanishev (1966), Barbara Karinska (1886), Władysław Horodecki (1863), Vladimir Kozlov (1979), and Valentina Grizodubova (1909). After her are Aleksei Kapler (1904), Yakov Malik (1906), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Nikolay Diletsky (1630), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), and Vladimir Megre (1950).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Maria Nikiforova ranks 8Before her are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Georgy Gapon (1870), Alexander Pechersky (1909), David Riazanov (1870), Haim Arlosoroff (1899), and Borys Romanchenko (1926). After her are Sergei Kovalev (1930), Alfreda Markowska (1926), Leo Deutsch (1855), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Petro Grigorenko (1907), and Mykola Rudenko (1920).