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Sergei Magnitsky

1972 - 2009

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Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (Russian: Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, pronounced [sʲɪrˈɡʲej lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ mɐɡˈnʲitskʲɪj]; Ukrainian: Сергій Леонідович Магнітський; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian government officials while representing client Hermitage Capital Management. His arrest in 2008 and subsequent death after eleven months in police custody generated international attention and triggered both official and unofficial inquiries into allegations of fraud, theft and human rights violations in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Magnitsky has received more than 1,231,273 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Sergei Magnitsky is the 58th most popular mafioso (down from 53rd in 2019), the 786th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 655th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Sergei Magnitsky ranks 58 out of 70. Before him are Joseph Colombo, Tony Accardo, Joe Profaci, Carlos Marcello, Jonathan Pollard, and Assata Shakur. After him are Kenneth Lay, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Abu Qatada, Rakhat Aliyev, Salah Abdeslam, and Abu Hamza al-Masri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Sergei Magnitsky ranks 170. Before him are Junichi Suwabe, Drea de Matteo, Kirill Petrenko, Junko Takeuchi, Craig Jones, and Eli Cohen. After him are Joe Wright, Ramon Menezes, Jenny McCarthy, Tego Calderón, RedOne, and Leonor Varela. Among people deceased in 2009, Sergei Magnitsky ranks 261. Before him are Charles W. Juels, Héctor Facundo, Harve Presnell, Mary Travers, Roger Planchon, and Jan Kaplický. After him are Jacques Chessex, Godfrey Rampling, Norbert Eschmann, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Daniel Jarque, and Francisco Valdés.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Magnitsky ranks 786 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexandra Marinina (1957), Marie Ljalková (1920), Yuriy Lutsenko (1964), Oleksandr Zinchenko (1996), Volodymyr Kaplychnyi (1944), and Roman Viktyuk (1936). After him are Andriy Lunin (1999), Natalia Dudinskaya (1912), Denys Monastyrsky (1980), Oleg Goncharenko (1931), Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), and Vasyl Rats (1961).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Ukraine

Among mafiosos born in Ukraine, Sergei Magnitsky ranks 2. Before him are Semion Mogilevich (1946).

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