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Alexander Ragulin

1941 - 2004

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Alexander Pavlovich "Rags" Ragulin (Russian: Александр Павлович Рагулин; 5 May 1941 – 17 November 2004) was a Russian ice hockey player. He is considered one of the best defensemen in Soviet ice hockey history, winning three Olympic gold medals and ten world titles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Ragulin has received more than 51,783 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Ragulin is the 276th most popular athlete (down from 245th in 2019), the 1,360th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,340th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alexander Ragulin ranks 276 out of 6,025Before him are William Hoyt, Harald Grønningen, Oscar Pistorius, Sergey Litvinov, Blanka Vlašić, and Zoltán Horváth. After him are Hicham El Guerrouj, Alice Coachman, Władysław Kozakiewicz, Henry Eriksson, Mildred McDaniel, and Mihaela Peneș.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Alexander Ragulin ranks 297Before him are Arie den Hartog, Renato Corsetti, Peter Brötzmann, Holger Meins, John Bennett Perry, and Joan Wallach Scott. After him are Michael Moriarty, Ibrahim Babangida, Patience Dabany, Josep Maria Mauri, Gorden Kaye, and Anatoli Firsov. Among people deceased in 2004, Alexander Ragulin ranks 158Before him are Xenophon Zolotas, Rick James, Eric Sturgess, Barney Kessel, Dimebag Darrell, and Carrie Snodgress. After him are Mildred McDaniel, Evelyn Mase, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Janet Frame, Christl Cranz, and Carvalho Leite.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Ragulin ranks 1,360 out of 3,761Before him are William Fermor (1702), Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806), Sergey Litvinov (1958), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), and Vyacheslav Volodin (1964). After him are Ilya Glazunov (1930), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pavel Durov (1984), and Viktor Grishin (1914).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Alexander Ragulin ranks 18Before him are Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Vladimir Melanin (1933), and Sergey Litvinov (1958). After him are Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Olha Bryzhina (1963), and Bernd Kannenberg (1942).