WRITER

Vasil Bykaŭ

1924 - 2003

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Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков; 19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a Belarusian Soviet dissident, junior lieutenant, opposition politician, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasil Bykaŭ has received more than 79,256 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Vasil Bykaŭ is the 1,523rd most popular writer (down from 1,451st in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 47th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belarusian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 79k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Poĭti i ne vernutʹsi͡a︡
1992

Page views of Vasil Bykaŭ by language

Over the past year Vasil Bykaŭ has had the most page views in the with 153,296 views, followed by Belarusian (29,576), and English (15,521). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (932.43%), Hungarian (340.00%), and Simple English (99.24%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 1,523 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmed Shawqi, Hugo Claus, Diagoras of Melos, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Madame d'Aulnoy, and Eduard Mörike. After him are Camilla Läckberg, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Edward Albee, Juan Goytisolo, Catherine of Bologna, and Anne Desclos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 89. Before him are Kenneth Waltz, Kenneth Kaunda, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Ottmar Walter, Paul Desmond, and Arthur Danto. After him are Leonid Kogan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Jacques Vergès, Roza Shanina, Tengiz Abuladze, and Robert Frank. Among people deceased in 2003, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 68. Before him are Bob Hope, László Papp, June Carter Cash, Elem Klimov, John Schlesinger, and Ilan Ramon. After him are Miloš Milutinović, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Michael Jeter, Walt Whitman Rostow, Eizo Yuguchi, and Valeriy Brumel.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 49 out of 368. Before him are Bronislava Nijinska (1891), Otto Schmidt (1891), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Paul Baran (1926), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), and Ignacy Domeyko (1802). After him are Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Salomon Maimon (1754), Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Abba Kovner (1918), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), and Alexander Orlov (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 5. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Yanka Kupala (1882), Yakub Kolas (1882), and Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835). After him are Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), and Bella Rosenfeld (1889).

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