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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 623,386 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Gouzenko is the 2,912th most popular writer (up from 2,986th in 2019), the 1,041st most popular biography from Russia (down from 997th in 2019) and the 126th most popular Russian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Igor Gouzenko ranks 2,912 out of 5,755. Before him are Anne Applebaum, Artur Lundkvist, Paul Fleming, Robert Harris, Michalina Wisłocka, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. After him are Huseyn Javid, Yasmina Khadra, Peter James, Giacomo da Lentini, Richard Baxter, and Hermann Rauschning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Igor Gouzenko ranks 138. Before him are Isaac Boleslavsky, Werner Goldberg, Lisa Della Casa, Galina Ustvolskaya, Toni Turek, and Tatyana Baramzina. After him are Franjo Kuharić, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Dan O'Herlihy, Henri Vidal, Joseph Serchuk, and Félix Gaillard. Among people deceased in 1982, Igor Gouzenko ranks 113. Before him are John Cheever, Helene Deutsch, Abba P. Lerner, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Christian Ferras, and Gábor Szabó. After him are Hermann Rauschning, Carlos Vidal, Hironori Ōtsuka, Albert Soboul, Yuen Ren Chao, and Hubert Lanz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Gouzenko ranks 1,041 out of 3,262. Before him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Sergey Uvarov (1786), Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968), Leah Goldberg (1911), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), and Tatyana Baramzina (1919). After him are Marat Safin (1980), Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887), Konstantin Leontiev (1831), Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Natalia Makarova (1940), and Eduard Artemyev (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Igor Gouzenko ranks 126. Before him are Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Yuli Daniel (1925), Olena Teliha (1906), Andrei Amalrik (1938), Valentin Rasputin (1937), and Leah Goldberg (1911). After him are Mikhail Prishvin (1873), Kir Bulychev (1934), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Boris Polevoy (1908), and Denis Davydov (1784).

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