SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vasily Ignatenko

1961 - 1986

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Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Ігнатенко; Belarusian: Васіль Іванавіч Ігнаценка; Russian: Василий Иванович Игнатенко; 13 March 1961 – 13 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster. He worked as an electrician before being conscripted into the Soviet Armed Forces in 1980, where he completed his two years of service as a military firefighter. Afterwards, he took up employment as a paramilitary firefighter with Fire Brigade No. 6, based in Pripyat. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Ignatenko is the 367th most popular social activist (down from 365th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 106th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 367 out of 840. Before him are Frank País, Charles Boycott, Mentor of Rhodes, Anita Augspurg, Abbie Hoffman, and Samantha Smith. After him are Mari Beyleryan, Alexander Antonov, Toktogul Satylganov, Toyohiko Kagawa, Viola Desmond, and Robert Catesby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 152. Before him are Janet McTeer, Juha Sipilä, Tim Meadows, Greg LeMond, Pumpuang Duangjan, and James Rollins. After him are Scott Travis, Veselin Vujović, Joe Lando, Jimmy Somerville, Toru Yoshikawa, and Jackie Earle Haley. Among people deceased in 1986, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 131. Before him are Harold Arlen, Howard Da Silva, Ernst Lehner, Géza von Radványi, D. R. Kaprekar, and Valerian Zorin. After him are Josef Kammhuber, Lili Kraus, Teddy Wilson, Helen B. Taussig, Leona Woods, and Henry Russell.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 104 out of 368. Before him are Anatoly Chubais (1955), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Romuald Klim (1933), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Symeon of Polotsk (1629), and Sergei Tumansky (1901). After him are Mikhail Myasnikovich (1950), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Aryna Sabalenka (1998), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), and Immanuel Velikovsky (1895).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Belarus

Among social activists born in Belarus, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 4. Before him are Alexander Parvus (1867), Abba Kovner (1918), and Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856). After him are Tuvia Bielski (1906), Roman Protasevich (1995), Valery Levaneuski (1963), and Veronika Tsepkalo (1976).

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