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WRITER

Boris Polevoy

1908 - 1981

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Boris Nikolayevich Polevoy (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Полево́й; 17 March [O.S. 4 March] 1908 – 12 July 1981) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, journalist and war correspondent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Polevoy has received more than 45,233 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Boris Polevoy is the 3,034th most popular writer (up from 3,268th in 2019), the 1,077th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,089th in 2019) and the 131st most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 45k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Boris Polevoy ranks 3,034 out of 5,755Before him are Robert de Nola, Vladimir Sorokin, Marcel Prévost, William Smith, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Takeo Arishima. After him are Juliette Adam, Samad Behrangi, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Mercedes de Acosta, Viktor Dyk, and Emile Habibi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Boris Polevoy ranks 154Before him are Lauri Lehtinen, Henryk Zygalski, Robert Morley, Ho Jong-suk, Nikolay Nosov, and Mario Evaristo. After him are Bengt Strömgren, Luis Regueiro, Winston Graham, Leo Sternbach, René Daumal, and Elliott Carter. Among people deceased in 1981, Boris Polevoy ranks 105Before him are Walter Heitler, Roman Rudenko, Zdeněk Burian, Norman Taurog, Marcel Bezençon, and Mostafa Chamran. After him are Ivan Eklind, Lydia Lopokova, Jim Davis, Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia, Allan Dwan, and Terry Fox.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Polevoy ranks 1,077 out of 3,262Before him are Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), and Ivan Tyulenev (1892). After him are Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), Pyotr Saltykov (1698), Nikita Simonyan (1926), Gennady Padalka (1958), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), and Pavel Postyshev (1887).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Boris Polevoy ranks 131Before him are Leah Goldberg (1911), Igor Gouzenko (1919), Mikhail Prishvin (1873), Kir Bulychev (1934), Boris Pilnyak (1894), and Vladimir Sorokin (1955). After him are Denis Davydov (1784), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Sergey Solovyov (1820), and Dmitry Pisarev (1840).