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WRITER

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 176,543 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Korney Chukovsky is the 1,540th most popular writer (down from 1,463rd in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Russia (down from 487th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Korney Chukovsky ranks 1,540 out of 5,755. Before him are Anna de Noailles, Väinö Linna, Qiu Chuji, Jaan Kross, Elizabeth Siddal, and Wayne Dyer. After him are Li Yu, Yeghishe Charents, Christy Brown, Pío Baroja, Jean de Meun, and Petr Ginz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Korney Chukovsky ranks 78. Before him are Leopold Stokowski, Eduard Spranger, Natalia Sedova, Germaine Dulac, Leo Perutz, and Joaquín Turina. After him are Yoshijirō Umezu, John Barrymore, William Halsey Jr., Ernst von Weizsäcker, Florian Znaniecki, and Eugène Joseph Delporte. Among people deceased in 1969, Korney Chukovsky ranks 58. Before him are Joseph Kosma, Leo McCarey, Ernest Ansermet, Dragiša Cvetković, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Frederic Bartlett. After him are Mikio Naruse, Markian Popov, Grażyna Bacewicz, Jiří Trnka, Radivoj Korać, and Claude Dornier.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Korney Chukovsky ranks 565 out of 3,262. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Zinaida Portnova (1926), and Vasily Bartold (1869). After him are Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Zeki Velidi Togan (1890), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), and Vasily Alekseyev (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Korney Chukovsky ranks 67. Before him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Alexander Radishchev (1749), and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826). After him are Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Alexander Belyaev (1884), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Afanasy Fet (1820), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), and Tanya Savicheva (1930).

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