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Vadim Bakatin

1937 - 2022

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Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He was the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task due to political reasons. However, he was able to fulfill a plan to disintegrate the intelligence agency into separate organizations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vadim Bakatin is the 10,278th most popular politician (down from 9,720th in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from Russia (up from 983rd in 2019) and the 271st most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vadim Bakatin ranks 10,278 out of 19,576Before him are Pietro I Candiano, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Lucius Scribonius Libo, Lucius Papirius Cursor, and Nicolaes Witsen. After him are Vima Kadphises, Jacques Duclos, Eemil Nestor Setälä, Miro, Hiempsal II, and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Vadim Bakatin ranks 190Before him are Valentin Bondarenko, Giovanni Arrighi, Maryan Wisniewski, Gustavo Noboa, Anna Hazare, and Dick Dale. After him are Erich Ribbeck, Tom Courtenay, Lusine Zakaryan, Richard Bright, Robert Gallo, and Petar Radaković. Among people deceased in 2022, Vadim Bakatin ranks 179Before him are Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Anatoly Filipchenko, Maryan Wisniewski, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Philip Baker Hall, and Kazuki Takahashi. After him are Robert Gordon, Pierre Kartner, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Letizia Battaglia, John Powell, and Leonid Kuravlyov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vadim Bakatin ranks 940 out of 3,761Before him are Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), Walter Krupinski (1920), Franz Overbeck (1837), Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Emil Wiechert (1861), and Andrey Myagkov (1938). After him are Vasily Lanovoy (1934), Eudoxia Streshneva (1608), Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), and Pyotr Lebedev (1866).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vadim Bakatin ranks 271Before him are Alexander Guchkov (1862), Maria Zakharova (1975), Sergey Sobyanin (1958), Viktoria Brezhneva (1907), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), and Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734). After him are Eudoxia Streshneva (1608), Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Platon Zubov (1767), Anatoly Dobrynin (1919), and Tini Beg (1341).