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Valery Bolotov

1970 - 2017

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Valery Dmitrievitch Bolotov (Russian: Вале́рий Дми́триевич Бо́лотов; Ukrainian: Вале́рій Дми́трович Бо́лотов, romanized: Valerii Dmytrovych Bolotov; 13 February 1970 – 27 January 2017) was a Ukrainian pro-Russia militant. In 2014, he became a prominent belligerent in the War in Donbas after being elected as the "People's Governor" of the internationally unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic, which was a Russia-aligned separatist quasi-country within Ukraine at the time. In 2017, he was found dead inside of his home in Moscow, Russia, under disputed circumstances; the exact cause of his death remains undetermined. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Valery Bolotov is the 16,275th most popular politician (up from 16,551st in 2024), the 2,192nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,361st in 2019) and the 432nd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Valery Bolotov ranks 16,275 out of 19,576. Before him are Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, Prince Ali bin Hussein, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, C. J. Hambro, Mohamed Said Fofana, and Eric Moussambani. After him are Theodore Katsanevas, Louis Meznarie, Otto Arosemena, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Ian Millar, and Haydée Santamaría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Valery Bolotov ranks 258. Before him are João Ricardo, Lee Jung-eun, Edin Mujčin, Jeanette J. Epps, Avishai Cohen, and Yuriy Nikiforov. After him are Nigo, Whigfield, Axel, Andrea Giani, Shin Tae-yong, and Tugay Kerimoğlu. Among people deceased in 2017, Valery Bolotov ranks 484. Before him are Julia Hartwig, Inge Keller, Hiromi Tsuru, John Nicholson, August Ames, and Margit Schumann. After him are Gunnar Birkerts, Walter Lassally, John Kundla, Nikos Koundouros, Dudley Storey, and Jan Szczepański.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valery Bolotov ranks 2,192 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871), Dmitry Kiselyov (1954), Ivan Bortnik (1939), Maxim Galkin (1976), Mikhail Zemtsov (1688), and Vera Maretskaya (1906). After him are Tatyana Golikova (1966), Kirill Serebrennikov (1969), Gavriil Popov (1936), Andrei Kobyakov (1960), Vernon Duke (1903), and Anatoly Maltsev (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Valery Bolotov ranks 432. Before him are Sergei Zubatov (1864), Ivan Rybkin (1946), Gennadiy Seleznyov (1947), Vytenis Andriukaitis (1951), Pyotr Demichev (1917), and Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957). After him are Gavriil Popov (1936), Andrei Kobyakov (1960), Yury Chaika (1951), Vasily Perovsky (1795), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), and Kazimierz Laskowski (1899).

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