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 67,798 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lydia Chukovskaya is the 4,177th most popular writer (down from 4,098th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Finland (down from 198th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Finnish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 68k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sofia Petrovna
Fiction, History, Soviet union, fiction
1988
Sochinenii͡a v 2 tomakh
Russian Authors, Biography, Russian prose literature
2000
Going under
Fiction
1972
The deserted house
Fiction, History, Russia
1965
Pami͡ati detstva
Biography, Childhood and youth, Family
1983
Zapiski ob Anne Akhmatovoĭ
Russian Poets, Russian Authors, Biography
1980

Page views of Lydia Chukovskayas by language

Over the past year Lydia Chukovskaya has had the most page views in the with 58,668 views, followed by English (8,299), and French (2,392). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (57.47%), Basque (52.09%), and Egyptian Arabic (41.38%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 4,177 out of 7,302. Before her are Tullio Pinelli, Conrad Aiken, Vassilis Alexakis, Olav Duun, Carolina Coronado, and Philoxenus of Mabbug. After her are Sahar Khalifeh, Rachid Boudjedra, Miyamoto Yuriko, René Depestre, Leigh Brackett, and Louise Erdrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 224. Before her are Giuseppe Occhialini, Zezé Moreira, Heikki Savolainen, Mark Krein, Émile Veinante, and Ragnar Gustavsson. After her are Seth Neddermeyer, Mascha Kaléko, Wanda Jakubowska, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Đuro Kurepa, and Philip Arthur Fisher. Among people deceased in 1996, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 187. Before her are Andrey Lukanov, Jamie Uys, Alger Hiss, Joseph Asajiro Satowaki, José Sasía, and Abdullah Çatlı. After her are Camilla Horn, Johan Kraag, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Ferdinand Leitner, Harry Andersson, and Tommy Rettig.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 206 out of 751. Before her are Lars Sonck (1870), Rudolf Walden (1878), Heikki Savolainen (1907), Adolf Ehrnrooth (1905), Arvo Aaltonen (1892), and Marion Rung (1945). After her are Kalevi Aho (1949), Frans Michael Franzén (1772), Emil Väre (1885), Pertti Karppinen (1953), Olli Rehn (1962), and Elisabeth Rehn (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 19. Before her are Pentti Linkola (1932), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), Paavo Haavikko (1931), and Johannes Linnankoski (1869). After her are Frans Michael Franzén (1772), Sofi Oksanen (1977), August Ahlqvist (1826), Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Märta Tikkanen (1935), and Rosa Liksom (1958).

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