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Volodymyr Shcherbytsky

1918 - 1990

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Volodymyr Vasyliovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 – 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. A close ally of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Shcherbytsky replaced reformist leader Petro Shelest in 1972 as part of a crackdown on the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Shcherbytsky ruled as a neo-Stalinist, overseeing Russification of Ukrainian society as well as a rapid shift to nuclear power, ultimately resulting in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Shcherbytsky was removed in 1989 amidst widespread protests against his rule, and died months later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Volodymyr Shcherbytsky is the 6,107th most popular politician (down from 5,919th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 215th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 6,107 out of 19,576. Before him are Aimo Cajander, Antigonus III Doson, Luis Carlos Galán, Ligdan Khan, Amrit Kaur, and Amenemnisu. After him are Gudfred, Yuriy Yekhanurov, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Theodora, and Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 81. Before him are Edward A. Murphy Jr., Spiro Agnew, W. Eugene Smith, Jin Youzhi, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Gabriel Axel. After him are Richard Winters, Fernando Peyroteo, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Fanny Blankers-Koen, E. Howard Hunt, and Cicely Saunders. Among people deceased in 1990, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 63. Before him are Jill Ireland, Arthur Samuel, Vasili Kuznetsov, Philippe Soupault, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Taiichi Ohno. After him are Manuel Puig, Nina Kulagina, Meir Kahane, Edmund Conen, Art Blakey, and Curtis LeMay.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 214 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Cyril Genik (1857), and Natalia Sedova (1882). After him are Vladimir Dal (1801), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Marina Mniszech (1588), Robert Maxwell (1923), and Efim Geller (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ranks 68. Before him are Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Ewelina Hańska (1805), and Cyril Genik (1857). After him are Robert Maxwell (1923), Efim Geller (1925), Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Olena Zelenska (1978), and Yaropolk I of Kiev (955).

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