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Oleg Protopopov

1932 - 2023

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Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov (Russian: Оле́г Алексе́евич Протопо́пов; 16 July 1932 – 31 October 2023) was a Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Ludmila Belousova he was a two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968) and four-time World champion (1965–1968). In 1979, the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oleg Protopopov has received more than 151,025 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Oleg Protopopov is the 3rd most popular skater (up from 8th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Russia (up from 722nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Oleg Protopopov ranks 3 out of 483. Before him are Sonja Henie, and Adelina Sotnikova. After him are Ulrich Salchow, Axel Paulsen, Tonya Harding, Clas Thunberg, Katarina Witt, Gillis Grafström, Ondrej Nepela, Ivar Ballangrud, and Ludmila Belousova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Oleg Protopopov ranks 99. Before him are Tatsuya Nakadai, Nikolai Kardashev, Manmohan Singh, Dudley R. Herschbach, Michael Smith, and Delphine Seyrig. After him are Wojciech Kilar, Ingemar Johansson, Joe Zawinul, Antonio Tejero, Rodion Shchedrin, and Paolo Villaggio. Among people deceased in 2023, Oleg Protopopov ranks 109. Before him are Marouf al-Bakhit, Sixto Rodriguez, Josephine Chaplin, Sinéad O'Connor, Antonio Carbajal, and John B. Goodenough. After him are Ian Wilmut, Lee Sun-kyun, Torben Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Ruth Fuchs, and Ken Mattingly.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 499 out of 3,761. Before him are Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859). After him are Korney Chukovsky (1882), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Mikhail of Tver (1271), and Ivan Bilibin (1876).

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Among SKATERS In Russia

Among skaters born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 2. Before him are Adelina Sotnikova (1996). After him are Ludmila Belousova (1935), Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Viktor Kosichkin (1938), Nikolai Panin (1872), Sergei Grinkov (1967), Klara Guseva (1937), Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946), Ekaterina Gordeeva (1971), and Eteri Tutberidze (1974).

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