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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vasily Ignatenko

1961 - 1986

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Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Ігнатенко; Belarusian: Васіль Іванавіч Ігнаценка; Russian: Василий Иванович Игнатенко; 13 March 1961 – 13 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster. He worked as an electrician before being conscripted into the Soviet Armed Forces in 1980, where he completed his two years of service as a military firefighter. Afterwards, he took up employment as a paramilitary firefighter with Fire Brigade No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Ignatenko has received more than 1,555,956 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vasily Ignatenko is the 321st most popular social activist (down from 287th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 91st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 321 out of 538. Before him are Melchora Aquino, Frank País, Surya Sen, Christabel Pankhurst, Huey P. Newton, and Lempira. After him are Hector Hodler, Kazimierz Świątek, Osman Kavala, Germaine Tillion, Alice Paul, and Ram Manohar Lohia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 116. Before him are James Rollins, Uhuru Kenyatta, David Graeber, Dana Reeve, Vincent Gallo, and Franky Van der Elst. After him are Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Etheridge, Tony Rominger, Joseph Kony, Jean-Christophe Grangé, and Samantha Bond. Among people deceased in 1986, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 118. Before him are Oscar Zariski, Mika Antić, Sandro Puppo, Teddy Wilson, Robert Stevenson, and Hoàng Văn Thái. After him are Ivan Papanin, Moses Finley, Peter Pears, Lili Kraus, John Alcott, and David Cooper.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 95 out of 330. Before him are Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Oscar Zariski (1899), Symeon of Polotsk (1629), Ales Adamovich (1927), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), and Carl Anton von Meyer (1795). After him are Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Ivonka Survilla (1936), David Sarnoff (1891), Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), and Benedykt Dybowski (1833).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Belarus

Among social activists born in Belarus, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 4. Before him are Alexander Parvus (1867), Abba Kovner (1918), and Tuvia Bielski (1906). After him are Roman Protasevich (1995) and Valery Levaneuski (1963).

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