WRITER

Sergei Dovlatov

1941 - 1990

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Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Донатович Довлатов; 3 September 1941 – 24 August 1990) was a Soviet journalist and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Dovlatov has received more than 340,469 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Dovlatov is the 1,871st most popular writer (down from 1,561st in 2019), the 673rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 574th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sergei Dovlatov ranks 1,871 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Goodman, Ion Creangă, Mohammed Dib, Petr Ginz, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and João de Barros. After him are Paulinus II of Aquileia, James Ellroy, Abbot Oliba, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Sergei Dovlatov ranks 147. Before him are Hisao Kami, Geoff Hurst, M. Stanley Whittingham, Alexander Gauland, Fabio Testi, and George Lakoff. After him are Andrei Mironov, David Hemmings, Myron Scholes, Nora Ephron, Fionnula Flanagan, and Salvatore Accardo. Among people deceased in 1990, Sergei Dovlatov ranks 76. Before him are Curtis LeMay, Halston, Hussein Onn, Manuel Puig, Georgy Flyorov, and Nina Kulagina. After him are Joan Bennett, Taro Kagawa, Attilio Demaría, Ronald Evans, George de Mestral, and Michel Leiris.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Dovlatov ranks 673 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Inna Churikova (1943), Vasily Petrov (1917), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), and Agrippina Vaganova (1879). After him are Elena Stasova (1873), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Andrei Mironov (1941), Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), Viktor Medvedchuk (1954), and Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Sergei Dovlatov ranks 80. Before him are Alexandre Benois (1870), Vasily Shukshin (1929), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Lilya Brik (1891), Zinaida Gippius (1869), and Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894). After him are Marko Vovchok (1833), Valery Bryusov (1873), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), Countess of Ségur (1799), and Tanya Savicheva (1930).

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