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Pavel Durov

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Pavel Valeryevich Durov (Russian: Павел Валерьевич Дуров; born 10 October 1984) is a Russian technology entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram, a messaging platform launched in 2013. Durov was born in Russia, where he co-founded the social networking site VKontakte (VK) in 2006. He left VK in 2014 following disputes with the company's new owners and increased pressure from Russian authorities, which also led him to leave the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Durov has received more than 4,720,179 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Pavel Durov is the 399th most popular businessperson (down from 353rd in 2019), the 1,365th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,186th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Businessperson.

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  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Pavel Durov ranks 399 out of 847. Before him are Toto Wolff, David Geffen, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Peter Thiel, Henry Cole, and Eddie Jordan. After him are Katharine Graham, Tatsumi Kimishima, Li Ning, Robert Monroe, Paul Rusesabagina, and Ken Aston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Pavel Durov ranks 33. Before him are Indila, Maxi López, Santi Cazorla, Eliud Kipchoge, Nikola Karabatić, and Olivia Wilde. After him are Nigel de Jong, Samir Handanović, Branislav Ivanović, Lena Katina, Ross Ulbricht, and Per Mertesacker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Durov ranks 1,365 out of 3,761. Before him are Vyacheslav Volodin (1964), Alexander Ragulin (1941), Ilya Glazunov (1930), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), and Innokenty Annensky (1855). After him are Viktor Grishin (1914), Pavel Chistyakov (1832), Franz Meyen (1804), Armas Järnefelt (1869), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), and Yuli Daniel (1925).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Russia

Among businesspeople born in Russia, Pavel Durov ranks 11. Before him are Pavel Tretyakov (1832), Arkady Rotenberg (1951), Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919), Oleg Deripaska (1968), Mikhail Prokhorov (1965), and Sergei Shchukin (1854). After him are Vladimir Lisin (1956), Savva Mamontov (1841), Lila Tretikov (1978), Vladimir Gusinsky (1952), Alexey Miller (1962), and Dmitry Rybolovlev (1966).

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