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Leonid Leonov

1899 - 1994

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Leonid Maksimovich Leonov (Russian: Леони́д Макси́мович Лео́нов; 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1899 — 8 August 1994) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of socialist realism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Leonov has received more than 58,130 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Leonid Leonov is the 2,856th most popular writer (down from 2,661st in 2019), the 1,059th most popular biography from Russia (down from 963rd in 2019) and the 125th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 58k

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  • 53.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leonid Leonov ranks 2,856 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Vogeler, Mahasweta Devi, Phlegon of Tralles, Aleksander Fredro, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, and Irvine Welsh. After him are Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Dmitry Likhachov, Anne McCaffrey, Bernardo Dovizi, Maurice Sendak, and Ferenc Kazinczy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Leonid Leonov ranks 131. Before him are Semyon Krivoshein, Francis Ponge, Georg Leibbrandt, Zhang Daqian, Qu Qiubai, and Peter Wessel Zapffe. After him are Nie Rongzhen, Aleksander Zawadzki, Rufino Tamayo, Oscar Zariski, Armand Salacrou, and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg. Among people deceased in 1994, Leonid Leonov ranks 144. Before him are Olga Rubtsova, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Zoltán Fábri, Mai Zetterling, Sarah Kofman, and Cameron Mitchell. After him are Jiří Sobotka, Stuart Roosa, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ales Adamovich, Cyprien Ntaryamira, and Maria Carta.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Leonov ranks 1,059 out of 3,761. Before him are Georg Ots (1920), Yuri Orlov (1924), Endel Tulving (1927), Lev Oborin (1907), Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824), and Andrei Kirilenko (1906). After him are Dmitry Likhachov (1906), Martti Talvela (1935), Viktor Zolotov (1954), Joseph M. Schenck (1876), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), and Natalya Estemirova (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Leonid Leonov ranks 125. Before him are Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Stasov (1824), Franz Overbeck (1837), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), and Denis Davydov (1784). After him are Dmitry Likhachov (1906), Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Lev Rubinstein (1947), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), and Andrei Amalrik (1938).

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