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Most Famous Russian Politicians & Lawyers

30 VL

Vladimir Lenin Russian Politician 1870–1924

30 JS

Joseph Stalin Russian Politician 1879–1953

146 LT

Leon Trotsky Russian Politician 1879–1940

147 MG

Mikhail Gorbachev Russian Politician b. 1931

154 VP

Vladimir Putin Russian Politician b. 1952

405 LB

Leonid Brezhnev Russian Politician 1906–1982

420 NK

Nikita Khrushchev Russian Politician 1894–1971

564 BY

Boris Yeltsin Russian Politician 1931–2007

1,034 MB

Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary 1814–1876

1,267 EG

Emma Goldman Russian Activist 1868–1940

1,377 VM

Vyacheslav Molotov Russian Politician 1890–1986

1,403 JP

Józef Piłsudski Russian Politician 1867–1935

1,697 LB

Lavrentiy Beria Russian Politician 1899–1953

2,339 YA

Yuri Andropov Russian Politician 1914–1984

3,105 NM

Nestor Makhno Russian Revolutionary 1888–1934

3,453 AG

Andrei Gromyko Russian Politician 1909–1989

3,866 MS

Mikheil Saakashvili Russian Politician b. 1967

3,916 GM

Georgy Malenkov Russian Politician 1901–1988

4,102 KV

Kliment Voroshilov Russian Politician 1881–1969

4,131 FD

Felix Dzerzhinsky Russian Politician 1877–1926

4,642 BN

Boris Nemtsov Russian Politician 1959–2015

5,821 AM

Anastas Mikoyan Russian Politician 1895–1978

6,072 GZ

Grigory Zinoviev Russian Revolutionary 1883–1936

6,365 PP

Petro Poroshenko Russian Minister b. 1965

6,721 SK

Sergey Kirov Russian Politician 1886–1934

7,257 MK

Mikhail Kalinin Russian Politician 1875–1946

7,544 LK

Lazar Kaganovich Russian Statesperson 1893–1991

7,820 AN

Alexei Navalny Russian Activist b. 1976

8,259 AZ Andrei Zhdanov Russian Politician 1896–1948

10,086 VC

Viktor Chernomyrdin Russian Politician 1938–2010

10,190 MS

Mikhail Suslov Russian Politician 1902–1982

10,760 AL

Alexander Lebed Russian Politician 1950–2002

10,763 RK

Ramzan Kadyrov Russian Politician b. 1976

12,320 VY

Viktor Yushchenko Russian Politician b. 1954

12,411 GC

Georgy Chicherin Russian Politician 1872–1936

13,275 GY

Genrikh Yagoda Russian Police 1891–1938

13,589 VB

Vladimir Bukovsky Russian Activist 1942–2019

13,791 LK

Leonid Kuchma Russian Politician b. 1938

14,206 GZ

Gennady Zyuganov Russian Politician b. 1944

15,406 RL

Raphael Lemkin Russian Lawyer 1900–1959

16,052 S(

Shamil (3rd Imam of Dagestan) Russian Politician 1797–1871

16,075 AC

Anatoly Chubais Russian Politician b. 1955

16,528 AK

Aleksey Kuropatkin Russian Politician 1848–1925

17,039 AM

Aslan Maskhadov Russian Politician 1951–2005

17,135 RG

Raisa Gorbacheva Russian Activist 1932–1999

17,985 SO

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian Politician 1886–1937

18,904 SS

Sergey Sobyanin Russian Politician b. 1958

19,184 KU

Kārlis Ulmanis Russian Politician 1877–1942

19,266 NR

Nikolai Ryzhkov Russian Politician b. 1929

19,616 VC

Viktor Chernov Russian Politician 1873–1952

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Inside Russia Politicians & Lawyers

568 notable people in this slice of the dataset.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous russia politicians & lawyers born in each.

Notable Births by Decade

Notable births among Russia Politicians & Lawyers peaked in the 1950s with 84 people.

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Biggest Most distinctive

Politician are Russia Politicians & Lawyers's biggest group — 78% of all notables (445).

Russia Politicians & Lawyers over-index on statesperson — 103.6× the global rate.

Politician44578%
Diplomat213.7%
Revolutionary203.5%
Activist162.8%
Lawyer162.8%
Statesperson152.6%
Minister61.1%
Secretary40.7%

Statesperson15103.6×
Revolutionary2027.1×
Activist1612.3×
Diplomat218.1×
Minister67.3×
Politician4454.6×
Lawyer161.7×