1938 - 1985
Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasyl Stus has received more than 145,472 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vasyl Stus is the 2,098th most popular writer (up from 2,665th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 357th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Ukrainian Writer.
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Among writers, Vasyl Stus ranks 2,098 out of 5,755. Before him are James Hilton, Matthieu Ricard, Arne Garborg, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, David Lodge, and Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi. After him are Nihal Atsız, Fritz Leiber, Nguyễn Du, Samuil Marshak, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, and Ludwig Uhland.
1900 - 1954
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 2,092
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 2,093
1851 - 1924
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 2,094
1858 - 1943
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 2,095
1935 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 2,096
1889 - 1929
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 2,097
1938 - 1985
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,098
1905 - 1975
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,099
1910 - 1992
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,100
1765 - 1820
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,101
1887 - 1964
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,102
1597 - 1654
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,103
1787 - 1862
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,104
Among people born in 1938, Vasyl Stus ranks 161. Before him are Omar Abdel-Rahman, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Patrick Bauchau, Benjamin Mkapa, Paul Martin, and Larisa Shepitko. After him are Ahmed Qurei, Klaus Voormann, William B. Davis, Arsen Dedić, Ronny Cox, and Jan Assmann. Among people deceased in 1985, Vasyl Stus ranks 71. Before him are Philly Joe Jones, Eugene Ormandy, Fred Uhlman, Matti Järvinen, Denis de Rougemont, and Edmond O'Brien. After him are Wolfgang Reitherman, Heinz Hoffmann, Afet İnan, Theodore Sturgeon, Anton Karas, and Vladimir Jankélévitch.
1938 - 2017
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 155
1938 - 2023
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 156
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 157
1938 - 2020
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 158
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 159
1938 - 1979
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 160
1938 - 1985
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 161
1938 - 2023
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 162
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 163
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 164
1938 - 2015
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 165
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 166
1938 - 2024
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 167
1923 - 1985
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 65
1899 - 1985
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 66
1901 - 1985
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 67
1909 - 1985
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 68
1906 - 1985
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 69
1915 - 1985
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 70
1938 - 1985
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 71
1909 - 1985
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 72
1910 - 1985
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 73
1908 - 1985
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 74
1918 - 1985
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 75
1906 - 1985
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 76
1903 - 1985
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 77
Among people born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 298 out of 1,083. Before him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Salo Flohr (1908), Efim Geller (1925), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), and Larisa Shepitko (1938). After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Hilarion of Kiev (990), Mark Taimanov (1926), and Natan Sharansky (1948).
1864 - 1913
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 292
1922 - 1951
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 293
1908 - 1983
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 294
1925 - 1998
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 295
1110 - 1167
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 296
1938 - 1979
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 297
1938 - 1985
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 298
1803 - 1890
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 299
1924 - 1998
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 300
1881 - 1936
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 301
990 - 1055
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 302
1926 - 2016
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 303
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 304
Among writers born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 39. Before him are Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Lina Kostenko (1930), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), and Tadeusz Borowski (1922). After him are Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Valentin Kataev (1897), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), and Mikołaj Rej (1505).
1856 - 1909
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 33
1907 - 1989
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 34
1930 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 35
1918 - 1970
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 36
1864 - 1913
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 37
1922 - 1951
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 38
1938 - 1985
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 39
1924 - 1998
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 40
1945 - 2021
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 41
1897 - 1986
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 42
1855 - 1888
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 43
1819 - 1897
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 44
1505 - 1569
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 45