WRITER

Igor Gouzenko

1919 - 1982

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Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Сергійович Гузенко; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). He defected on September 5, 1945, three days after the end of World War II, with 109 documents on the USSR's espionage activities in the West. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Gouzenko has received more than 655,985 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Igor Gouzenko is the 3,316th most popular writer (down from 2,901st in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,039th in 2019) and the 150th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Iron Curtain
This was my choice
Canada, Refugees, Russia
1948
The iron curtain
Secret service, Social life and customs, Spies
1948
The fall of a titan
Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del, Informers, Fiction
1954

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Igor Gouzenko ranks 3,316 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Sewell, Bernhard Grzimek, Nossis, Alexander Dukhnovych, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Ibn Warraq. After him are Ai Yazawa, Maryana Marrash, Marcellus of Ancyra, Zofia Posmysz, Arnold Wesker, and Robert McKee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Igor Gouzenko ranks 159. Before him are Dan O'Herlihy, Mariano Martín, Merce Cunningham, Tamara Toumanova, Hermann Bondi, and Jüri Järvet. After him are Oswaldo Guayasamín, Hans Hermann Groër, Galina Ustvolskaya, Julia Robinson, Laila Schou Nilsen, and Eva Gabor. Among people deceased in 1982, Igor Gouzenko ranks 128. Before him are Hermann Rauschning, Nahum Goldmann, Alberto Cavalcanti, Yuen Ren Chao, Leonid Utyosov, and Warren Oates. After him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Jean Effel, Ulla Jacobsson, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Alfredo Ovando Candía, and Olle Hellbom.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Gouzenko ranks 1,225 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Alexander Kutepov (1882), Nikolai Noskov (1956), and Sergei Shtemenko (1907). After him are Vladimir Basov (1923), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Max Wien (1866), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Igor Gouzenko ranks 150. Before him are Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Agniya Barto (1906), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), and Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910). After him are Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Viktor Astafyev (1924), Philotheus of Pskov (1465), Boris Polevoy (1908), Victor Pelevin (1962), and Alexander Sumarokov (1717).

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