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Korney Chukovsky

1882 - 1969

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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский, IPA: [kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj] ; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Korney Chukovsky has received more than 198,737 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Korney Chukovsky is the 1,402nd most popular writer (up from 1,537th in 2019), the 500th most popular biography from Russia (up from 564th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Korney Chukovsky ranks 1,402 out of 7,302. Before him are Fulcher of Chartres, César Vallejo, Sima Xiangru, Siegfried Lenz, Robert Bloch, and Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues. After him are Kâtip Çelebi, Maj Sjöwall, Gavrila Derzhavin, Jaan Kross, Jules de Goncourt, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Korney Chukovsky ranks 71. Before him are Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johnny Torrio, John Rabe, Friedrich Dollmann, Lucien Petit-Breton, and Eduard Spranger. After him are Husband E. Kimmel, Germaine Dulac, Joaquín Turina, Leopold Stokowski, Harold Lowe, and Natalia Sedova. Among people deceased in 1969, Korney Chukovsky ranks 50. Before him are Erika Mann, Zakir Husain, Walter Christaller, Vito Genovese, René Barrientos, and Raymond A. Spruance. After him are Grażyna Bacewicz, Dragiša Cvetković, Eberhard von Mackensen, Markian Popov, Radivoj Korać, and Artur da Costa e Silva.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Korney Chukovsky ranks 500 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), and Oleg Protopopov (1932). After him are Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Mikhail of Tver (1271), Ivan Bilibin (1876), and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Korney Chukovsky ranks 64. Before him are Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Edith Södergran (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), and Aleksandr Kuprin (1870). After him are Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Nina Berberova (1901), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), and Alexander Belyaev (1884).

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