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Vasily Alekseyev

1942 - 2011

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Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev (Russian: Василий Иванович Алексеев; 7 January 1942 – 25 November 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Alekseyev has received more than 496,450 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Vasily Alekseyev is the 38th most popular athlete (up from 42nd in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Russia (down from 555th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 38 out of 3,059Before him are Dorando Pietri, Al Oerter, Frank Zane, Ben Johnson, Sohn Kee-chung, and Shizo Kanakuri. After him are Coroebus of Elis, Ivan Patzaichin, Tommie Smith, Mark Phillips, Jānis Lūsis, and Theagenes of Thasos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 145Before him are Ivo Viktor, Christopher A. Sims, Linda Evans, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Felice Gimondi, and Étienne Balibar. After him are Michel Kafando, Michel Fourniret, Nicole Fontaine, Sigfried Held, Robert Ballard, and Rei Kawakubo. Among people deceased in 2011, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 81Before him are Valentin Ivanov, Harold Garfinkel, Jack Kevorkian, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andy Whitfield, and Walter Bonatti. After him are Eugene Nida, Ferenc Mádl, Ange-Félix Patassé, Roland Petit, Frans Sammut, and Raúl Ruiz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 571 out of 3,262Before him are Korney Chukovsky (1882), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Zeki Velidi Togan (1890), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), and Galina Vishnevskaya (1926). After him are Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Alexander Belyaev (1884), and Vladimir Shukhov (1853).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 2Before him are Yuriy Sedykh (1955). After him are Valeriy Brumel (1942), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Irena Szewińska (1946), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Vera Krepkina (1933), and Natalya Lisovskaya (1962).