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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 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Vasil Bykaŭ is the 1,454th most popular writer (up from 2,087th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 61st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 1,454 out of 5,755Before him are Rick Riordan, César Vallejo, Jules Laforgue, Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, and J. G. Ballard. After him are Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Alexander Radishchev, Philip José Farmer, Ruy González de Clavijo, and José Mauro de Vasconcelos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 87Before him are Jozef Tomko, Arthur Danto, Paul Desmond, Kenneth Kaunda, James Black, and Israel Tal. After him are Milka Planinc, Moktar Ould Daddah, Antoni Ramallets, David Bronstein, Noboru Takeshita, and Torsten Wiesel. Among people deceased in 2003, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 60Before him are Monique Wittig, Lee Yoo-hyung, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Walt Whitman Rostow, Anna Lindh, and John Schlesinger. After him are Georg Henrik von Wright, Ilan Ramon, Michael P. Anderson, Moktar Ould Daddah, Alan Bates, and Donald O'Connor.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 47 out of 330Before him are Sophia of Minsk (1140), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Marek Edelman (1922), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), and Otto Schmidt (1891). After him are Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Alexander Orlov (1895), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), and Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835).

Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 4Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Yanka Kupala (1882), and Yakub Kolas (1882). After him are Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), Oscar Milosz (1877), S. Ansky (1863), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), and Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930).