Most Famous Russian Politicians

Russia has produced 554 notable politicians throughout history, led by Vladimir Lenin. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Top Ranked

  1. Vladimir Lenin — Russian Politician (1870–1924) , ranked #30
  2. Joseph Stalin — Russian Politician (1879–1953) , ranked #30
  3. Leon Trotsky — Russian Politician (1879–1940) , ranked #146
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev — Russian Politician (Born 1931) , ranked #147
  5. Vladimir Putin — Russian Politician (Born 1952) , ranked #154
  6. Leonid Brezhnev — Russian Politician (1906–1982) , ranked #405
  7. Nikita Khrushchev — Russian Politician (1894–1971) , ranked #420
  8. Boris Yeltsin — Russian Politician (1931–2007) , ranked #564
  9. Mikhail Bakunin — Russian Revolutionary (1814–1876) , ranked #1034
  10. Emma Goldman — Russian Activist (1868–1940) , ranked #1267
  11. Vyacheslav Molotov — Russian Politician (1890–1986) , ranked #1377
  12. Józef Piłsudski — Russian Politician (1867–1935) , ranked #1403
  13. Lavrentiy Beria — Russian Politician (1899–1953) , ranked #1697
  14. Alfred Rosenberg — Russian Nazi (1893–1946) , ranked #1832
  15. Yuri Andropov — Russian Politician (1914–1984) , ranked #2339
  16. Nestor Makhno — Russian Revolutionary (1888–1934) , ranked #3105
  17. Andrei Gromyko — Russian Politician (1909–1989) , ranked #3453
  18. Vladimir Zhirinovsky — Russian Nationalist (Born 1946) , ranked #3675
  19. Mikheil Saakashvili — Russian Politician (Born 1967) , ranked #3866
  20. Georgy Malenkov — Russian Politician (1901–1988) , ranked #3916