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 1,542,402 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Vasily Ignatenko is the 364th most popular social activist (down from 321st in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 95th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vasily Ignatenkos by language

Over the past year Vasily Ignatenko has had the most page views in the with 178,813 views, followed by Russian (66,365), and Spanish (29,790). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (1,462.05%), Finnish (296.55%), and Latvian (55.15%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 364 out of 840. Before him are Kazimierz Świątek, Felix Manz, Zinaida Portnova, Black Elk, Hector Hodler, and Karl Ludwig Sand. After him are Petro Grigorenko, Pattimura, Clara Barton, Hannie Schaft, Udham Singh, and Frank País.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 138. Before him are Juha Sipilä, Yanis Varoufakis, Jackie Earle Haley, Souleymane Sané, Eugenio Derbez, and Alexander Payne. After him are Alemão, Maia Chiburdanidze, Kazuki Takahashi, Juan Carlos Osorio, Agneta Andersson, and Timur Bekmambetov. Among people deceased in 1986, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 123. Before him are Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, David Cooper, Robert Stevenson, and Géza von Radványi. After him are Gregory Jarvis, Mary Eristavi, Adolfo Baloncieri, Mika Antić, Valerian Zorin, and D. R. Kaprekar.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasily Ignatenko ranks 106 out of 368. Before him are Ivan Yarkovsky (1844), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Ivonka Survilla (1936), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982). After him are Valeriya Novodvorskaya (1950), Chaim Kanievsky (1928), Benedykt Dybowski (1833), Romuald Klim (1933), Michael Rohoza (1540), and Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836).

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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 Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856). After him are Tuvia Bielski (1906), Valery Levaneuski (1963), Roman Protasevich (1995), and Veronika Tsepkalo (1976).

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