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Boris Nemtsov

1959 - 2015

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Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Nemtsov has received more than 1,904,328 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Boris Nemtsov is the 2,615th most popular politician (up from 3,817th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Russia (up from 376th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Russian Politician.

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  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Nemtsov ranks 2,615 out of 19,576. Before him are Cleomenes I, Ladislaus of Naples, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Mstislav I of Kiev, and Yazid III. After him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, William II of Holland, Emperor Zhao of Han, Intef I, and Lin Zexu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Boris Nemtsov ranks 14. Before him are Klaus Iohannis, Emma Thompson, Val Kilmer, Evo Morales, Alberto Fernández, and Luciano Spalletti. After him are Hugh Laurie, Maurizio Sarri, Bryan Adams, Magic Johnson, Bernd Schuster, and Mauricio Macri. Among people deceased in 2015, Boris Nemtsov ranks 37. Before him are Zito, Eduardo Galeano, Maya Plisetskaya, Manoel de Oliveira, Oliver Sacks, and Douglass North. After him are Yoichiro Nambu, Alcides Ghiggia, Wes Craven, Yevgeny Primakov, Günter Schabowski, and Colleen McCullough.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Nemtsov ranks 241 out of 3,761. Before him are Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), and Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864). After him are Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Arthur Adamov (1908), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Vasily Blyukher (1889), and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Boris Nemtsov ranks 73. Before him are Mikhail Suslov (1902), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Gustav Bauer (1870), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), and Gennady Yanayev (1937). After him are Viktor Zubkov (1941), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891).

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