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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

1962 - Today

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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов, [kʲɪrˈsan nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ɪlʲʉmˈʐinəf]; Kalmyk: Үлмҗин Кирсән, Ülmcin Kirsən, [yləmˈd͡ʒin cirˈsæn]; 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 in 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 355,245 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the 11,886th most popular politician (down from 10,808th in 2019), the 1,330th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,148th in 2019) and the 345th most popular Russian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 11,886 out of 15,577Before him are Tom Hayden, Ranulf I of Aquitaine, Gabi Ashkenazi, Doğu Perinçek, Sergey Mironov, and George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Arsames I, Max von Hausen, Elizabeth Fry, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Edward Fortunatus, and Kirta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 146Before him are Karel Roden, Alexey Miller, Grant Show, Michael Weikath, Eriq La Salle, and Mano Menezes. After him are Jutta Kleinschmidt, David Lagercrantz, John Slattery, Markus Merk, Nigmatilla Yuldashev, and Hironobu Sakaguchi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 1,330 out of 3,262Before him are Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Helena Roerich (1879), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), Gavriil Popov (1904), Andrey Korotayev (1961), and Sergey Mironov (1953). After him are Vitaly Solomin (1941), Konstantin Fedin (1892), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Aulis Sallinen (1935), Albert Shesternyov (1941), and Andrejs Pumpurs (1841).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov ranks 345Before him are Andrey Lukanov (1938), Alexander Protopopov (1866), Alexander Lebedev (1959), Igor Strelkov (1970), Fyodor Dan (1871), and Sergey Mironov (1953). After him are Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), Lev Perovski (1792), Jacob Bruce (1669), Irina Khakamada (1955), Solomon Lozovsky (1876), and Izmail Sreznevsky (1812).