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Nina Kulagina

1926 - 1990

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Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина, born Ninel Mikhaylova) (30 July 1926 – 11 April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis. Academic research of her phenomenon was conducted in the USSR for the last 20 years of her life. Kulagina was suspected of utilizing hidden magnets and threads to perform her feats. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nina Kulagina has received more than 577,338 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Nina Kulagina is the 28th most popular occultist (down from 26th in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from Russia (down from 605th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Nina Kulagina ranks 28 out of 41. Before her are Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Stanislas de Guaita, Michael Scot, Franz Bardon, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and Charles Webster Leadbeater. After her are Alice Bailey, Algernon Blackwood, Joséphin Péladan, A. E. Waite, Elias Ashmole, and Dion Fortune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Nina Kulagina ranks 129. Before her are Muhammad al-Badr, Estanislau Basora, Teddy Scholten, Salah Jadid, Valerio Zurlini, and Peter Graves. After her are Per Wahlöö, Thorbjörn Fälldin, Gordon Scott, Amadeo Carrizo, Erich Juskowiak, and Bal Thackeray. Among people deceased in 1990, Nina Kulagina ranks 75. Before her are Edmund Conen, Curtis LeMay, Halston, Hussein Onn, Manuel Puig, and Georgy Flyorov. After her are Sergei Dovlatov, Joan Bennett, Taro Kagawa, Attilio Demaría, Ronald Evans, and George de Mestral.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nina Kulagina ranks 657 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), and Georgy Flyorov (1913). After her are Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Sergey Surovikin (1966), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), and Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Russia

Among occultists born in Russia, Nina Kulagina ranks 2. Before her are Grigori Rasputin (1869). After her are Sergey Oldenburg (1863).

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