WRITER

Valentin Rasputin

1937 - 2015

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Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (; Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentin Rasputin has received more than 111,689 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Valentin Rasputin is the 2,659th most popular writer (up from 2,868th in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,028th in 2019) and the 118th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Povesti
1976
Den'gi dlia Marii
1968
Zhivi i pomni
Fiction, Russian prose literature, World War, 1939-1945
1975
Vek zhivi--vek li︠u︡bi
Fiction, Russian Short stories, Social life and customs
1982
Proshchanie s Materoĭ
City and town life, Fiction
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Valentin Rasputin ranks 2,659 out of 7,302. Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Stanko Vraz, Polemon I of Pontus, William Goldman, Jim Corbett, and Hans Hellmut Kirst. After him are Béla Király, Gustav Schwab, Michael Cunningham, Petrus Comestor, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valentin Rasputin ranks 197. Before him are Maryan Wisniewski, Eero Mäntyranta, Richard Jordan, Monica Zetterlund, Robert Gallo, and Dick Dale. After him are Vadim Bakatin, Colin Renfrew, Antonio Rattín, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Joseph Estrada, and Gordon Milne. Among people deceased in 2015, Valentin Rasputin ranks 140. Before him are Harald Nielsen, Esther Brand, Doris Hart, Ernst Fuchs, Roberto M. Levingston, and Robert Conquest. After him are Douglas Tompkins, Franco Interlenghi, Dick Nanninga, Moses Malone, Percy Sledge, and André Glucksmann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentin Rasputin ranks 982 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), Olga Rozanova (1886), Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1869), Boris Volynov (1934), Princess Olga Paley (1865), and Dmitry Peskov (1967). After him are Vadim Bakatin (1937), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Nikolay Raevsky (1771), Olga Baclanova (1893), Matvei Platov (1753), and Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Valentin Rasputin ranks 118. Before him are Ivan Yefremov (1908), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Friedrich von Lütke (1797), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), and Olga Rozanova (1886). After him are Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Stasov (1824), Franz Overbeck (1837), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), and Denis Davydov (1784).

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