SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Petro Grigorenko

1907 - 1987

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Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Григо́рович Григоре́нко, 16 October [O.S. 3 October] 1907 – 21 February 1987) was a high-ranking Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, who in his fifties became a dissident and a writer, one of the founders of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. For 16 years, he was a professor of cybernetics at the Frunze Military Academy and chairman of its cybernetic section before joining the ranks of the early dissidents. In the mid-1970s Grigorenko helped to found the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, before leaving the USSR for medical treatment in the United States. The Soviet government barred his return, and he never again returned to the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Petro Grigorenko is the 459th most popular social activist (down from 366th in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 508th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Petro Grigorenko ranks 459 out of 840. Before him are Jason Moore, Phyllis Schlafly, Bogaletch Gebre, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carlos Fonseca, and Iosif Grigulevich. After him are Giuseppe Pinelli, Gotō Shōjirō, Eugene V. Debs, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Mirabehn, and Saalumarada Thimmakka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Petro Grigorenko ranks 249. Before him are Philip Arthur Fisher, Israel Regardie, Polina Osipenko, Hugo Strauß, Yevgeniy Abalakov, and Wanda Jakubowska. After him are Bep van Klaveren, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Nikolai Gastello, Lydia Chukovskaya, Sukhdev Thapar, and Martín Marculeta. Among people deceased in 1987, Petro Grigorenko ranks 162. Before him are John Mikaelsson, Jacob Taubes, J. Lawton Collins, Gerardo Diego, Yūjirō Ishihara, and Gioacchino Colombo. After him are Gerhard Fieseler, Ethel Catherwood, František Šafránek, James Jesus Angleton, Leabua Jonathan, and Solomana Kante.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Petro Grigorenko ranks 660 out of 1,365. Before him are Ostap Vyshnya (1889), Aleksander Ford (1908), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929), and Anatoliy Konkov (1949). After him are Mieczysław Horszowski (1892), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), Lidiya Alfeyeva (1946), Nina Matviienko (1947), Dimitar Grekov (1847), and Leo Ornstein (1895).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Petro Grigorenko ranks 13. Before him are Borys Romanchenko (1926), Maria Nikiforova (1885), Sergei Kovalev (1930), Alfreda Markowska (1926), Leo Deutsch (1855), and Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916). After him are Mykola Rudenko (1920), Oleksandra Matviichuk (1983), Anna Sharyhina (1978), Ihor Kostenko (1991), and Alexandra Shevchenko (1988).

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