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Volodymyr Pravyk

1962 - 1986

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Volodymyr Pavlovych Pravyk (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Правик, Russian: Владимир Павлович Правик, romanized: Vladimir Pavlovich Pravik; 13 June 1962 – 11 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter notable for his role in directing initial efforts to extinguish fires following the Chernobyl Disaster. Following the event, he was hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome and died sixteen days later. He was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin by the Soviet Union, and later the Ukrainian Star For Courage (later known as the Order for Courage) in recognition of his efforts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Volodymyr Pravyk is the 1,781st most popular military personnel (up from 1,847th in 2024), the 745th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 817th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Volodymyr Pravyk ranks 1,781 out of 2,058. Before him are Chi Haotian, Mikhail Devyataev, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Maria Wittek, Smedley Butler, and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. After him are Mickey Marcus, Paul von Plehwe, Manuel Goded Llopis, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Serhiy Shaptala, and Matthew Fontaine Maury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Volodymyr Pravyk ranks 253. Before him are Valérie Kaprisky, Avi Loeb, Georges Grün, Katsuhiro Kusaki, Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco, Anders Johansson, Fred Rutten, Ally Sheedy, Vlado Bučkovski, Teri Weigel, Rosamund Kwan, and Jack Irons.  Among people deceased in 1986, Volodymyr Pravyk ranks 203. Before him are Oleg Goncharenko, Reinhold Münzenberg, Jean Cassou, Bruno Mora, André Tassin, and Sulo Bärlund. After him are Willy Kaiser, Raymond Abellio, Jo Gartner, Alicia Moreau de Justo, Hyman G. Rickover, and Lothar Bolz.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Pravyk ranks 745 out of 1,365. Before him are Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Alexander Litovchenko (1835), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Alexander Zakharchenko (1976), Abraham Lempel (1936), and Anna Muzychuk (1990). After him are Matvei Bronstein (1906), Antonina Nezhdanova (1873), Lidiya Ponomarenko (1922), Serhiy Shaptala (1973), Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865), and Antoni Malczewski (1793).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Pravyk ranks 43. Before him are Georgi Todorov (1858), Polina Gelman (1919), Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), Franciszek Kleeberg (1888), Nikolay Shchors (1895), and Yekaterina Zelenko (1916). After him are Serhiy Shaptala (1973), Marie Ljalková (1920), Józef Kowalski (1900), Olha Ilkiv (1920), Kyrylo Budanov (1986), and Stepan Poltorak (1965).

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