WRITER

Venedikt Yerofeyev

1938 - 1990

Photo of Venedikt Yerofeyev

Icon of person Venedikt Yerofeyev

Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev, also or Erofeyev (Russian: Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев; 24 October 1938 in Niva-3 settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha – 11 May 1990 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Venedikt Yerofeyev has received more than 115,831 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Venedikt Yerofeyev is the 2,886th most popular writer (down from 2,716th in 2019), the 1,070th most popular biography from Russia (down from 981st in 2019) and the 127th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Venedikt Yerofeyev ranks 2,886 out of 7,302Before him are Andre Norton, Zülfü Livaneli, Avetik Isahakyan, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Hyginus Gromaticus, and Tomas Venclova. After him are Bernardo Atxaga, Antiphanes, Fazil Iskander, Yūko Tsushima, John Fletcher, and Tom Stoppard.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Venedikt Yerofeyev ranks 218Before him are Larry Niven, Richard Beymer, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Lawrence Block, Grethe Ingmann, and Eiko Ishioka. After him are Michel Duchaussoy, Behrouz Vossoughi, McCoy Tyner, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Michael Löwy, and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. Among people deceased in 1990, Venedikt Yerofeyev ranks 118Before him are Naoto Tajima, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Andrei Kirilenko, Anne Revere, Grethe Ingmann, and John Hansen. After him are Dodie Smith, Feng Youlan, Michael Powell, Zhang Qun, Aldo Fabrizi, and Paul Ariste.

Others Born in 1938

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1990

Go to all Rankings

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Venedikt Yerofeyev ranks 1,070 out of 3,761Before him are Fyodor Apraksin (1661), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Ludmila Savelyeva (1942), Elena Mukhina (1960), Boris Asafyev (1884), and Yuliya Solntseva (1901). After him are Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Lev Rubinstein (1947), Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887), Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky (1796), and Sergei Salnikov (1925).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Venedikt Yerofeyev ranks 127Before him are Vladimir Stasov (1824), Franz Overbeck (1837), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Denis Davydov (1784), Leonid Leonov (1899), and Dmitry Likhachov (1906). After him are Lev Rubinstein (1947), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Andrei Amalrik (1938), Sergey Solovyov (1820), and Dmitry Pisarev (1840).