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Aleksandr Karelin

1967 - Today

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kɐˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a Russian politician and retired athlete. Karelin competed in Greco-Roman wrestling, representing the Soviet Union and Russia between 1987 and 2000. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear", "Russian King Kong", "Alexander the Great", "The Experiment", and "The Crane from Novosibirsk", he is widely considered to be the greatest and most dominant Greco-Roman wrestler of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Karelin has received more than 2,588,076 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Aleksandr Karelin is the 6th most popular wrestler (up from 14th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 578th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Wrestler.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Aleksandr Karelin ranks 6 out of 700Before him are André the Giant, Hulk Hogan, The French Angel, Kane, and John Cena. After him are Masahiko Kimura, Antonio Inoki, Anton Geesink, Dave Bautista, Chyna, and Rocky Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Aleksandr Karelin ranks 20Before him are Denis Villeneuve, Carrie-Anne Moss, Mark Rutte, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Benicio del Toro, and Mark Ruffalo. After him are Pamela Anderson, Mike Portnoy, Matt LeBlanc, Javier Sotomayor, Massimiliano Allegri, and Boris Becker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Karelin ranks 383 out of 3,262Before him are Boris Nemtsov (1959), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), and Anna Dostoevskaya (1846). After him are Tamara Karsavina (1885), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Naina Yeltsina (1932), Sergey Nechayev (1847), and Pavel Nakhimov (1802).

Among WRESTLERS In Russia

Among wrestlers born in Russia, Aleksandr Karelin ranks 2Before him are The French Angel (1903). After him are Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Oskari Friman (1893), Ivan Yarygin (1948), Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), Soslan Andiyev (1952), Artur Taymazov (1979), Abdulrashid Sadulaev (1996), Pavel Pinigin (1953), and Hüseyin Özkan (1972).