WRITER

Ivan Yefremov

1908 - 1972

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Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov, sometimes Efremov (Russian: Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; 23 April 1908 – 5 October 1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Yefremov has received more than 159,106 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Yefremov is the 2,553rd most popular writer (down from 2,195th in 2019), the 932nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 798th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Russian Writer.

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Notable Works

Tais Afinskai͡a︡
Greece
1973
Chas byka
1970
Tumannostʹ Andromedy
1950
Lezvie britvy
1964
Andromeda
Fiction
Ivan Yefremov (1907-1972) was a well-known Soviet scientist, a professor of paleontology and a talented writer of science fiction. "No writer did as much as Yefremov for science," wrote one reader, "and no scientist did as much as Yefremov for literature." Andromeda is a novel about the future of mankind. It depicts with truly fantastic scope the unparalleled bloom of science and technology and the rise of a new social order, and portrays the Universe in the so-called Era of the Great Circle, when Earth will have constant communication with space. Written in 1956, on the eve of the first attempts at space exploration - when the word "cosmonaut" still belonged exclusively to the domain of science fiction - the novel has long since become widely known throughout the world. It is symbolic that, on the day of the launching of the first Earth satellite, readers congratulated Yefremov on the dawning of the Era of the Great Circle.
1980
The Land of Foam
Fiction
The author, a famed scientist, was a leader of Soviet science fiction and his book Andromeda launched a decade that has been called the Golden Age of Soviet science fiction, but he also was an inspiration to scores of gifted young authors.
2001

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Yefremov ranks 2,553 out of 7,302. Before him are Lois McMaster Bujold, Cornelis de Bruijn, Dorothea von Schlegel, Noël Coward, Amélie Nothomb, and Andrea Dworkin. After him are Catulle Mendès, Raffi, Giraut de Bornelh, John Barth, David Lodge, and Ada Negri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Ivan Yefremov ranks 137. Before him are Petro Shelest, Son Ngoc Thanh, Sam Giancana, Salo Flohr, Richard Wright, and Aurelio Peccei. After him are Lee Krasner, Mario Evaristo, Anna Sten, Juan López Fontana, Mel Blanc, and Lupe Vélez. Among people deceased in 1972, Ivan Yefremov ranks 94. Before him are Joseph Paul-Boncour, Richard Courant, James F. Byrnes, Ángel Romano, Pierre Brasseur, and Edward Calvin Kendall. After him are Dan Blocker, Prince William of Gloucester, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Violette Leduc, Walter Jackson Freeman II, and Lee Morgan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Yefremov ranks 932 out of 3,761. Before him are Evgeny Kissin (1971), Léonide Massine (1896), Konstantin Leontiev (1831), Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Aleksandr Dvornikov (1961), and Andrey II of Vladimir (1222). After him are Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Anatoli Boukreev (1958), Platon Zubov (1767), Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), and Feodosia Morozova (1632).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Yefremov ranks 112. Before him are Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Noor Inayat Khan (1914), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Eeva Kilpi (1928), and Şihabetdin Märcani (1818). After him are Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Friedrich von Lütke (1797), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Olga Rozanova (1886), and Valentin Rasputin (1937).

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