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Vasily Blokhin

1895 - 1955

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Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Russian Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria. Blokhin was selected for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign, mostly during the Great Purge and Eastern Front of World War II. Blokhin is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner in recorded world history. Blokhin was forced into retirement in 1953 after the death of Stalin and condemned during de-Stalinization shortly before his death in 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Blokhin is the 2,576th most popular politician (up from 3,472nd in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Russia (up from 336th in 2019) and the 70th most popular Russian Politician.

Vasily Blokhin was a Soviet military officer and Nazi collaborator who was the head of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Lviv during the German occupation of Ukraine. He is most famous for his role in the Babi Yar massacre, where he was responsible for killing more than 30,000 Jews.

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Among politicians, Vasily Blokhin ranks 2,576 out of 19,576. Before him are Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Tudḫaliya IV, Biljana Plavšić, Andrew III of Hungary, and Henry V, Count of Luxembourg. After him are Miloš Obrenović, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Fumio Kishida, Childebert II, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Vasily Blokhin ranks 46. Before him are Rudolph Valentino, Folke Bernadotte, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Vladimir Propp, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wilhelm Burgdorf. After him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Stanley Rous, Jürgen Stroop, Richard Barthelmess, Babe Ruth, and Dorothea Lange. Among people deceased in 1955, Vasily Blokhin ranks 22. Before him are Charlie Parker, Paul Claudel, Rodolfo Graziani, Maurice Utrillo, George Enescu, and Pak Hon-yong. After him are John Mott, Calouste Gulbenkian, Carmen Miranda, Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 218 out of 3,761. Before him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), and Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839). After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Alexei Navalny (1976), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vasily Blokhin ranks 70. Before him are Felix Yusupov (1887), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), and Mikhail Suslov (1902). After him are Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Gustav Bauer (1870), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), and Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95).

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