WRITER

Nikolai Ostrovsky

1904 - 1936

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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский; Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Островський, romanized: Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovskyi; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Ostrovsky has received more than 163,419 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nikolai Ostrovsky is the 899th most popular writer (down from 737th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Nikolai Ostrovsky is most famous for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

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  • 62.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Storm
2007
Et l'acier fut trempe
2001
How the Steel was Tempered
1973
Gang tie shi zen yang lian cheng de
1999
Kak zakali︠a︡lasʹ stalʹ
1937

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 899 out of 7,302. Before him are Tukaram, Ben Jonson, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Eugène Scribe, Daniel Goleman, and Roger Zelazny. After him are Appius Claudius Caecus, Shoko Asahara, Sherwood Anderson, Etty Hillesum, Bruce Chatwin, and Maurice Druon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 43. Before him are George F. Kennan, Alejo Carpentier, Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, Odilo Globočnik, and Joseph Campbell. After him are Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, Héctor Castro, Karl Rahner, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and John Gielgud. Among people deceased in 1936, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 38. Before him are Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, Anne Sullivan, Georg Michaelis, Karl Pearson, and Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen. After him are Georgy Chicherin, Julius Schreck, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Heinrich Rickert, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Marcel Grossmann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 118 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Paskevich (1782), Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), and Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801). After him are Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Milla Jovovich (1975), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), and Vladimir Arnold (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 23. Before him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), and Gregory Skovoroda (1722). After him are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836).

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