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WRITER

Lydia Chukovskaya

1907 - 1996

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Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə] ; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lydia Chukovskaya has received more than 68,757 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Lydia Chukovskaya is the 4,111th most popular writer (down from 3,350th in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Finland (down from 145th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Finnish Writer.

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  • 69k

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  • 48.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 4,111 out of 5,755Before her are Gysbert Japiks, Kekaumenos, Pyotr Tkachev, Sara Teasdale, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, and Quim Monzó. After her are Jan Myrdal, Georg Sauerwein, Abel Bonnard, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Juan José Arreola, and Knud Knudsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 217Before her are Martti Miettunen, Đuro Kurepa, Émile Veinante, Vasja Pirc, Benjamin Sheares, and Anton Schall. After her are Paula Wessely, Alexander Knox, Georges Speicher, Sigmund Ruud, George Raynor, and István Bárány. Among people deceased in 1996, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 176Before her are Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Reinhard Libuda, Joseph Asajiro Satowaki, George Burns, Pilar Lorengar, and Ennio de Giorgi. After her are Heriberto Herrera, Hrant Shahinyan, Gyula Kállai, Akram al-Hawrani, Bill Monroe, and Inger Jacobsen.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 198 out of 642Before her are Pentti Eskola (1883), Kullervo Manner (1880), Julius Saaristo (1891), Rudolf Walden (1878), Väinö Kokkinen (1899), and Timo Tolkki (1966). After her are Rafael Paasio (1903), Sofi Oksanen (1977), Reino Ragnar Lehto (1898), Elmer Niklander (1890), Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739), and Walter Jakobsson (1882).

Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 19Before her are Fredrika Bremer (1801), Pentti Linkola (1932), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), Frans Michael Franzén (1772), and Paavo Haavikko (1931). After her are Sofi Oksanen (1977), Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Johannes Linnankoski (1869), Rosa Liksom (1958), August Ahlqvist (1826), and Antti Tuuri (1944).