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Polina Zhemchuzhina

1897 - 1970

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Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya; 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles production in the Ministry of Light Industry from 1939 to 1948. In 1948, Zhemchuzhina was arrested by the Soviet secret police, charged with treason, and sent into internal exile, where she remained until after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Polina Zhemchuzhina is the 7,694th most popular politician (down from 6,827th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Polina Zhemchuzhina ranks 7,694 out of 19,576. Before her are Antonio Possevino, Marwan Barghouti, Wilhelm Kube, Shahu I, Ron Johnson, and Salitis. After her are Ambrosius Aurelianus, Grimoald the Younger, Ron DeSantis, Joop den Uyl, Nikolai Krylenko, and Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Polina Zhemchuzhina ranks 111. Before her are Samuel Noah Kramer, Arthur Greiser, Otto Dietrich, Sergey Taboritsky, Maximus V of Constantinople, and Olga Chekhova. After her are Vaso Čubrilović, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Virginia Henderson, Alexandre Tansman, Fazlollah Zahedi, and Eddie Eagan. Among people deceased in 1970, Polina Zhemchuzhina ranks 85. Before her are Jan Syrový, Feroz Khan Noon, Leonarda Cianciulli, Richard Neutra, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Michał Kalecki. After her are Théo Sarapo, Eiji Tsuburaya, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Albert Lamorisse, Mikhail Mil, and Franz Schlegelberger.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Polina Zhemchuzhina ranks 284 out of 1,365. Before her are Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Joseph Kobzon (1937), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), and Arseny Tarkovsky (1907). After her are Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Sidney Reilly (1873), and Ahad Ha'am (1856).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Polina Zhemchuzhina ranks 88. Before her are Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Meir Dagan (1945), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Moisei Uritsky (1873), Igor II of Kiev (1100), and Natan Sharansky (1948). After her are Sidney Reilly (1873), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), and Emanuel Ringelblum (1900).

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