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WRITER

Ilya Ilf

1897 - 1937

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Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg; Russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1897 – 13 April 1937) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilya Ilf has received more than 71,981 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ilya Ilf is the 3,420th most popular writer (down from 3,376th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 447th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ilya Ilf ranks 3,420 out of 5,755. Before him are Vincenzo Cerami, Charles Simon Favart, Sue Townsend, Mykola Kulish, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Francis Scott Key. After him are Félix María de Samaniego, Nikolay Novikov, Zulfiya, Gabrielle Wittkop, Laura Mancinelli, and Titus Calpurnius Siculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Ilya Ilf ranks 166. Before him are Nicholas Poppe, Mikhail Kovalyov, Alberto Cavalcanti, Einar Gerhardsen, Karl Decker, and Kazimierz Nowak. After him are Pierre Fresnay, Kurt Feldt, Camillo Berneri, Lya De Putti, Karel Lamač, and Antonio Riberi. Among people deceased in 1937, Ilya Ilf ranks 102. Before him are Renate Müller, Albert Heim, Mikhail Diterikhs, Kazimierz Nowak, Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, and Mykola Kulish. After him are Camillo Berneri, Felix Hamrin, Carlo Rosselli, Ahmad Javad, Victor Laloux, and George Albert Boulenger.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ilya Ilf ranks 486 out of 1,083. Before him are Pavlo Lazarenko (1953), Kazimierz Nowak (1897), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Viktor Chukarin (1921), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), and Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888). After him are Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Polina Osipenko (1907), Leonid Stadnyk (1969), and Nathan Altman (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ilya Ilf ranks 66. Before him are Rose Ausländer (1901), Yury Vlasov (1935), Yury Olesha (1899), Demyan Bedny (1883), Ida Fink (1921), and Oles Honchar (1918). After him are Mikhail Koltsov (1898), David Bergelson (1884), Viktor Nekrasov (1911), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Yevgeny Petrov (1902), and Mykola Bazhan (1904).

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