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Eduard Limonov

1943 - 2020

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Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov (né Savenko; Russian: Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов, IPA: [ɪdʊˈart vʲɪnʲɪɐˈmʲinəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪˈmonəf]; 22 February 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, political dissident and politician. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1991, where he founded the National Bolshevik Party. The party was banned in the country in 2007 and superseded by The Other Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Limonov has received more than 919,011 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Eduard Limonov is the 3,051st most popular politician (up from 3,230th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Russia (up from 328th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Russian Politician.

Eduard Limonov is most famous for being a Russian writer and dissident who was imprisoned for his opposition to the Soviet Union.

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  • 920k

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  • 62.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eduard Limonov ranks 3,051 out of 19,576. Before him are Hormizd IV, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Deioces, Astyanax, Pujie, and Alfonso I of Asturias. After him are Muhammad I of Córdoba, Emilio Mola, Émile Lahoud, Ali of Hejaz, Arnold Rüütel, and Chlothar III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Eduard Limonov ranks 68. Before him are Masaru Emoto, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Esma Redžepova, Neale Donald Walsch, Arthur B. McDonald, and Mario Botta. After him are Lucio Dalla, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Johann Deisenhofer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Antonio Inoki, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta. Among people deceased in 2020, Eduard Limonov ranks 42. Before him are Michael Lonsdale, John le Carré, Lucia Bosè, Kobe Bryant, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Nexhmije Hoxha. After him are Kenzō Takada, Luis Sepúlveda, Geert Hofstede, Mirella Freni, Masatoshi Koshiba, and Philip Warren Anderson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eduard Limonov ranks 285 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Grechko (1903), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Eugen Sandow (1867), and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843). After him are Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), and Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Eduard Limonov ranks 86. Before him are Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Mykola Azarov (1947), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), and Oleg Penkovsky (1919). After him are Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832).

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