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Nikolai Podgorny

1903 - 1983

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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (18 February [O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka on 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Podgorny is the 2,218th most popular politician (down from 2,006th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 85th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Nikolai Podgorny was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 to 1977. He was also the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1960 to 1977.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 2,218 out of 19,576. Before him are Lin Biao, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Injong of Joseon, and John V of Portugal. After him are Maria Mandl, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Chiang Ching-kuo, Zimri-Lim, Akhmad Kadyrov, and Magnus IV of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 30. Before him are Frank P. Ramsey, Hugo Theorell, Anaïs Nin, Mustafa Barzani, Karl Hanke, and Rudolf Abel. After him are Fahri Korutürk, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Raymond Queneau, John Dillinger, Hans Jonas, and Irène Némirovsky. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 18. Before him are Jon Brower Minnoch, John Vorster, Tennessee Williams, Benigno Aquino Jr., David Niven, and Arthur Koestler. After him are Roy Sullivan, Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, Meyer Lansky, Alfred Tarski, and George Cukor.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 75 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), and Sonia Delaunay (1885). After him are Mila Kunis (1983), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Larisa Latynina (1934), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Nikolai Podgorny ranks 29. Before him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Levi Eshkol (1895), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898). After him are Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Karl Radek (1885), and Daniel of Galicia (1201).

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