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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alexander Marinesko

1913 - 1963

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Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Russian: Александр Иванович Маринеско, Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Марiнеско, Romanian: Alexandru Marinescu; 15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1913 – 25 November 1963) was a Soviet career naval officer. During the last year of World War II, he became known as the captain of the submarine S-13, which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea in January 1945. Passengers included civilians and women and children being evacuated from East Prussia, in addition to military and related personnel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Marinesko has received more than 192,639 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Marinesko is the 728th most popular military personnel (up from 783rd in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 259th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Marinesko ranks 728 out of 1,468. Before him are James Bowie, Surena, Roustam Raza, Erich Brandenberger, Heinrich Eberbach, and Iona Yakir. After him are Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Friedrich Hossbach, Jack Churchill, Taira no Masakado, Heinz Hitler, and Aimable Pélissier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Alexander Marinesko ranks 91. Before him are Marika Rökk, Amrita Sher-Gil, Johannes Steinhoff, Haxhi Lleshi, Bill Shankly, and José Sánchez del Río. After him are Victor Mature, Franck Pourcel, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Willi Hennig, Álvaro Cunhal, and Mickey Cohen. Among people deceased in 1963, Alexander Marinesko ranks 51. Before him are Eduard Spranger, Karl von Terzaghi, Remedios Varo, Sylvanus Olympio, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Jacobus Oud. After him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Fritz Reiner, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Georg Lindemann, and Jacob Gade.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 233 out of 1,083. Before him are Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Michael of Chernigov (1185), Ida Kamińska (1899), Ahad Ha'am (1856), and Vladimir Dal (1801). After him are Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Maya Deren (1917), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), Joseph Kobzon (1937), Sergei Kovalev (1930), and Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 20. Before him are Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), and Stanisław Sosabowski (1892). After him are Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Alexander Matrosov (1924), Nadezhda Durova (1783), and Grigory Shtern (1900).

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