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Sergei Skripal

1951 - Today

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Sergei Viktorovich Skripal (Russian: Сергей Викторович Скрипаль, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ skrʲɪˈpalʲ]; born 23 June 1951) is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the United Kingdom's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. In December 2004, he was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He settled in the United Kingdom in 2010 following the Illegals Programme spy swap. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Skripal has received more than 2,315,412 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 34 in 2019). Sergei Skripal is the 361st most popular military personnel (up from 629th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Russia (up from 534th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sergei Skripal ranks 361 out of 2,058. Before him are Maximilian von Spee, Ivan Paskevich, Jozef Gabčík, Omar Pasha, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, and Levin August von Bennigsen. After him are Nicolas Chauvin, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Ban Chao, Kirill Meretskov, Iwane Matsui, and Lü Meng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Sergei Skripal ranks 32. Before him are Mark Hamill, Jane Seymour, Juan Manuel Santos, Traian Băsescu, Jill Biden, and Kevin Keegan. After him are Blaise Compaoré, Queen Noor of Jordan, Elio Di Rupo, Nikolai Patrushev, Bertie Ahern, and Chris Rea.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Skripal ranks 300 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), and Viktor Shklovsky (1893). After him are Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Kirill Meretskov (1897), and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Sergei Skripal ranks 28. Before him are Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), and Andrei Grechko (1903). After him are Kirill Meretskov (1897), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Leonid Govorov (1897), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), and Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848).

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