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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 143,177 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Oleg Protopopov is the 8th most popular skater (up from 18th in 2019), the 724th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,049th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Skater.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Oleg Protopopov ranks 8 out of 315. Before him are Ulrich Salchow, Axel Paulsen, Gillis Grafström, Katarina Witt, Tonya Harding, and Clas Thunberg. After him are Ondrej Nepela, Karl Schäfer, Ludmila Belousova, Ard Schenk, Ivar Ballangrud, and Madge Syers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Oleg Protopopov ranks 131. Before him are Branko Lustig, Robert Benton, Isao Tomita, Orlando Letelier, Piper Laurie, and Jerzy Hoffman. After him are Gato Barbieri, Carlyle Glean, Alvin Plantinga, John Hillerman, Momoko Kōchi, and Félix Malloum. Among people deceased in 2023, Oleg Protopopov ranks 97. Before him are Federico Bahamontes, Amitai Etzioni, Chaim Topol, Lisa Marie Presley, Piper Laurie, and Ken Mattingly. After him are Glenda Jackson, Marc Augé, Philippe Sollers, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Treat Williams, and Daisaku Ikeda.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 724 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Yakov Pavlov (1917), Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (1827), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Countess of Ségur (1799), and Malyuta Skuratov (1600). After him are Olga Rozanova (1886), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Talabuga (1300), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861), and Musa Cälil (1906).

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Among SKATERS In Russia

Among skaters born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 1. After him are Ludmila Belousova (1935), Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Eteri Tutberidze (1974), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Nikolai Panin (1872), Sergei Grinkov (1967), Alexei Ulanov (1947), Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev (1952), Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946), Boris Shilkov (1927), and Andrei Bukin (1957).

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