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Viacheslav Chornovil

1937 - 1999

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Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Максимович Чорновіл; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, independence activist and politician who was the leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine from 1989 until his death in 1999. He spent fifteen years imprisoned by the Soviet government for his human rights activism, and was later a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 1999, being among the first and most prominent anti-communists to hold public office in Ukraine. He twice ran for the presidency of Ukraine; the first time, in 1991, he was defeated by Leonid Kravchuk, while in 1999 he died in a car crash under disputed circumstances. Chornovil was born in the village of Yerky, in central Ukraine, then under the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viacheslav Chornovil is the 7,160th most popular politician (up from 7,712th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 299th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 7,160 out of 19,576. Before him are Mstislav of Chernigov, Milan Martić, Tom Naudé, José Sócrates, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Emperor Go-En'yū, Şehzade Bayezid, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Sevar of Bulgaria, and Franz Vranitzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 120. Before him are Carmen Pereira, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Vittorio Brambilla, Zoltán Horváth, Aleksandr Medved, and Cüneyt Arkın. After him are Franz Vranitzky, Francis Veber, Amos Tversky, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Petros Markaris, and Olusegun Obasanjo. Among people deceased in 1999, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 70. Before him are Charlotte Perriand, Hermine Braunsteiner, Paul Bowles, Igor Netto, Barış Manço, and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. After him are Ri Jong-ok, Maurice Couve de Murville, Momčilo Đujić, Leon Štukelj, Phaedon Gizikis, and Walter Lini.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 255 out of 1,365. Before him are Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Aleksandr Medved (1937), Mark Bernes (1911), and Otto Struve (1897). After him are Adam Zagajewski (1945), Ida Kamińska (1899), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Muhammad Asad (1900), and Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 79. Before him are Olena Zelenska (1978), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), Michael of Chernigov (1185), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), and Eugen Ehrlich (1862). After him are Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Meir Dagan (1945), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), and Moisei Uritsky (1873).

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