WRITER

Eduard Uspensky

1937 - 2018

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Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (Russian: Эдуард Николаевич Успенский; 22 December 1937 – 14 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian children's writer and poet, author of over 70 books, as well as a playwright, screenwriter and TV presenter. His works have been translated into 25 languages and spawned around 60 cartoon adaptations. Among the characters he created are Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, Uncle Fyodor and Kolobki brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Uspensky has received more than 122,488 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Eduard Uspensky is the 2,158th most popular writer (up from 2,299th in 2019), the 784th most popular biography from Russia (up from 831st in 2019) and the 94th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eduard Uspensky ranks 2,158 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksander Chodźko, Musa Cälil, Paul the Silentiary, Siri Hustvedt, Charles de Brosses, and Amrita Pritam. After him are Paul Morand, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Ernst Robert Curtius, Al-Farazdaq, Phan Bội Châu, and Michel Leiris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Eduard Uspensky ranks 148. Before him are Tung Chee-hwa, Mintimer Shaimiev, Jay Rockefeller, Waylon Jennings, Francisco Gabica, and Marie Dubois. After him are Eduard Streltsov, Facundo Cabral, Emerich Jenei, Edward Fox, Erich Segal, and Gundula Janowitz. Among people deceased in 2018, Eduard Uspensky ranks 122. Before him are Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Đỗ Mười, Sridevi, Dan Gurney, Maria Bueno, and Azeglio Vicini. After him are Sergio Balanzino, Michael Anderson, Nicole Fontaine, Venantino Venantini, Ahron Daum, and Oleg Tabakov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eduard Uspensky ranks 784 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Shakhlin (1932), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Sergei Novikov (1938), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Anatoli Papanov (1922), and Musa Cälil (1906). After him are Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Eduard Streltsov (1937), Ivan Goremykin (1839), Vasily Polenov (1844), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962), and Prince Paul of Württemberg (1785).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Eduard Uspensky ranks 94. Before him are Fyodor Sologub (1863), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Afanasy Fet (1820), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), and Musa Cälil (1906). After him are Samuil Marshak (1887), Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886), Konstantin Balmont (1867), and Andrey Kurkov (1961).

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