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Vladimir Ivashko

1932 - 1994

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Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko (Russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Ива́шко; Ukrainian: Володимир Антонович Івашко, romanized: Volodymyr Antonovych Ivashko; 28 October 1932 – 13 November 1994) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, briefly acting as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the period from 24 to 29 August 1991. On 24 August, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from the post, and on 29 August the CPSU was suspended by the Supreme Soviet. Before becoming General Secretary he had been voted Gorbachev's Deputy General Secretary within the Party on 12 July 1990, a newly created position as a result of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Ivashko is the 2,967th most popular politician (up from 3,905th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 139th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Vladimir Ivashko is most famous for being the Soviet Union's first cosmonaut. He was the first human to fly in space on April 12, 1961.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Ivashko ranks 2,967 out of 19,576. Before him are Henry of Bohemia, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Thomas Palaiologos, Alfonso II of Naples, Theophano, and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia. After him are Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Alcinous, Anastasia Romanovna, Léon Gambetta, Zhao Gao, and Vladimír Mečiar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Vladimir Ivashko ranks 53. Before him are Valentino, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Adolfo Suárez, V. S. Naipaul, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Little Richard. After him are Vytautas Landsbergis, John Searle, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Robert Mundell, and Hiroaki Sato. Among people deceased in 1994, Vladimir Ivashko ranks 40. Before him are Telly Savalas, Guy Debord, Bassel al-Assad, Marija Gimbutas, Andrés Escobar, and Pierre Boulle. After him are Witold Lutosławski, Henry Mancini, Gian Maria Volonté, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Paul Delvaux, and Roger Wolcott Sperry.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Ivashko ranks 102 out of 1,365. Before him are Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), John Demjanjuk (1920), Alexander Archipenko (1887), and Andrey Yeryomenko (1892). After him are Roman Shukhevych (1907), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), and Fanny Kaplan (1890).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Vladimir Ivashko ranks 36. Before him are Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Karl Radek (1885), and Daniel of Galicia (1201). After him are Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), and Oleksandr Turchynov (1964).

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