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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

1962 - Today

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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (born 5 April 1962) is a Russian oligarch, administrator and politician. He was President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and was president of FIDE, the chess international governing body, from 1995 to 2018. He has also been at the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has received more than 375,406 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the 12,408th most popular politician (down from 11,846th in 2019), the 1,372nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,326th in 2019) and the 353rd most popular Russian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 12,408 out of 19,576. Before him are Kaarlo Castrén, Ernst Hoppenberg, Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Ziaelas of Bithynia, and Grimoald of Bavaria. After him are Prince Karl of Auersperg, Seth Meribre, Boris Pankin, Abdurrahim El-Keib, Titus Flavius Sabinus, and Centwine of Wessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 164. Before him are Karel Roden, Maruschka Detmers, Ferran Adrià, Esai Morales, Tariq Ramadan, and Michael Weikath. After him are Uwe Rahn, MC Hammer, Wim Kieft, Taslima Nasrin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Branko Đurić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 1,372 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Grishin (1914), Pavel Chistyakov (1832), Franz Meyen (1804), Armas Järnefelt (1869), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), and Yuli Daniel (1925). After him are Oleg Salyukov (1955), Kaj Franck (1911), Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), Mark Zakharov (1933), Duke Alexander of Oldenburg (1844), and Karl Vaino (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 353. Before him are Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868), William Fermor (1702), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Vyacheslav Volodin (1964), and Viktor Grishin (1914). After him are Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), Karl Vaino (1923), Vitaly Churkin (1952), Anatoli Firsov (1941), Alexander Protopopov (1866), and Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786).

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