1929 - 1974
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Shukshin has received more than 116,812 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Vasily Shukshin is the 1,723rd most popular writer (up from 1,813th in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Russia (down from 607th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Russian Writer.
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Among writers, Vasily Shukshin ranks 1,723 out of 5,755. Before him are Alma Reville, Miguel Hernández, Philemon, Attila József, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, and Jordan of Saxony. After him are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Guillaume de Lorris, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Clark Ashton Smith, Hannah Szenes, and Symeon the Metaphrast.
1899 - 1982
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 1,717
1910 - 1942
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 1,718
362 BC - 262 BC
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 1,719
1905 - 1937
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 1,720
1885 - 1939
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 1,721
1190 - 1237
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 1,722
1929 - 1974
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 1,723
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1,724
1200 - 1238
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1,725
1876 - 1938
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1,726
1893 - 1961
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 1,727
1921 - 1944
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 1,728
900 - 987
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 1,729
Among people born in 1929, Vasily Shukshin ranks 136. Before him are Eric Carle, Zillur Rahman, Whitey Bulger, Kateb Yacine, Vladimír Menšík, and George Crumb. After him are Carlos Lacoste, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Filaret, Roger Byrne, Amitai Etzioni, and Poul Schlüter. Among people deceased in 1974, Vasily Shukshin ranks 57. Before him are Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Jan Tschichold, Lajos Zilahy, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Samuel Goldwyn, and Bill Finger. After him are Otto Braun, Konstantin Melnikov, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Pietro Germi, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, and Junio Valerio Borghese.
1929 - 2021
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 130
1929 - 2013
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 131
1929 - 2018
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 132
1929 - 1989
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 133
1929 - 1988
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 134
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 135
1929 - 1974
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 136
1929 - 2004
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 137
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 138
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 139
1929 - 1958
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 140
1929 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 141
1929 - 2021
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 142
1897 - 1974
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 51
1902 - 1974
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 52
1891 - 1974
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 53
1886 - 1974
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 54
1879 - 1974
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 55
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 56
1929 - 1974
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 57
1900 - 1974
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 58
1890 - 1974
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 59
1915 - 1974
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 60
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 61
1877 - 1974
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 62
1906 - 1974
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 63
Among people born in Russia, Vasily Shukshin ranks 626 out of 3,262. Before him are Andrei Karlov (1954), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Sergey Naryshkin (1954), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), and Igor Ansoff (1918). After him are Irina Godunova (1557), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Mikhail Mil (1909), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), and Dersu Uzala (1849).
1954 - 2016
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 620
1834 - 1873
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 621
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 622
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 623
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 624
1918 - 2002
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 625
1929 - 1974
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 626
1557 - 1603
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 627
1862 - 1942
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 628
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 629
1909 - 1970
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 630
1890 - 1974
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 631
1849 - 1908
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 632
Among writers born in Russia, Vasily Shukshin ranks 77. Before him are Afanasy Fet (1820), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Tanya Savicheva (1930), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), and John of Kronstadt (1829). After him are Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), Nina Berberova (1901), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Lilya Brik (1891), Alexandre Benois (1870), and Valery Bryusov (1873).
1820 - 1892
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 71
1904 - 1977
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 72
1930 - 1944
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 73
1894 - 1958
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 74
1901 - 1956
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 75
1829 - 1908
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 76
1929 - 1974
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 77
1823 - 1870
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 78
1901 - 1993
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 79
1892 - 1968
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 80
1891 - 1978
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 81
1870 - 1960
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 82
1873 - 1924
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 83