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Viktor Abakumov

1908 - 1954

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Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (Russian: Виктор Семёнович Абакумов; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high-level Soviet security official who from 1943 to 1946 was the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 of the Minister of State Security or MGB (ex-NKGB). He was removed from office and arrested in 1951 on charges of failing to investigate the Doctors' Plot. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Abakumov was tried for fabricating the Leningrad Affair, sentenced to death and executed in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Abakumov is the 6,628th most popular politician (down from 6,625th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from Russia (up from 612th in 2019) and the 165th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Abakumov ranks 6,628 out of 19,576. Before him are Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Şehzade Korkut, Stefan Vladislav, Mesh-ki-ang-gasher, Mark Felt, and Fatali Khan Khoyski. After him are Canaan Banana, Tzitzak, Ludwig Fischer, Abdiqasim Salad, Theophano Martinakia, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Viktor Abakumov ranks 83. Before him are Remedios Varo, Max Bill, Henri, Count of Paris, Van Heflin, Rómulo Betancourt, and Jim Brown. After him are Edward Dmytryk, Eduard Roschmann, Sicco Mansholt, Koča Popović, Tex Avery, and Sarit Thanarat. Among people deceased in 1954, Viktor Abakumov ranks 44. Before him are Theodore Lyman IV, Fritz London, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Marianne Weber, Günther Quandt, and Stig Dagerman. After him are Wilhelm Schmidt, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Franz Josef Popp, Oscar Straus, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, and Edwin Howard Armstrong.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Abakumov ranks 566 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Viktor Chernov (1873), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Yakov Sinai (1935), Nikolai Ge (1831), and Anund Gårdske (1004). After him are Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Matvei Zakharov (1898), and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Viktor Abakumov ranks 165. Before him are Andrei Karlov (1954), Zeki Velidi Togan (1890), Boris Pugo (1937), Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553), Viktor Chernov (1873), and Anund Gårdske (1004). After him are Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874), Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825), Nikolai Golitsyn (1850), and Uliana of Tver (1325).

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