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Petro Shelest

1908 - 1996

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Petro Yukhymovych Shelest (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Petro Shelest is the 9,849th most popular politician (down from 9,036th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 350th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Petro Shelest ranks 9,849 out of 19,576. Before him are Lu Xiufu, Ilyas Khoja, Edward Ochab, Joseph Serchuk, Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, and Jayavarman VIII. After him are Alix, Duchess of Brittany, Jules Simon, King Xiao of Zhou, Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo, Iset, and Alexander I of Georgia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Petro Shelest ranks 140. Before him are David Marshall, Vazgen I, Françoise Dolto, Juan López Fontana, Jacques Massu, and Johanna Budwig. After him are Mel Blanc, Luis Regueiro, Karel Ančerl, Giacomo Manzù, Ahmad Shukeiri, and Lupe Vélez. Among people deceased in 1996, Petro Shelest ranks 112. Before him are Leo Joseph Suenens, Shams Pahlavi, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dondinho, Gerry Mulligan, and Margaux Hemingway. After him are Karl Rappan, Pierre Grimal, Don Simpson, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Hernán Siles Zuazo, and José Donoso.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 382 out of 1,365. Before him are Jacques Bergier (1912), Ingeborg of Kiev (1100), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Bohdan Stupka (1941), and Dmitry Levitzky (1735). After him are Ivan Martinov (1771), Rose Ausländer (1901), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Petro Shelest ranks 107. Before him are Igor Sergeyev (1938), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), Pavlo Lazarenko (1953), Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), and Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null). After him are Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), Abraham Zapruder (1905), Yevhen Marchuk (1941), Sydir Kovpak (1887), Eugen Schauman (1875), and Yevgenia Bosch (1879).

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