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Victor Chizhikov

1935 - 2020

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Victor Alexandrovich Chizhikov (Russian: Виктор Александрович Чижиков; 26 September 1935 – 20 July 2020) was a Russian children's book illustrator and the designer of the Olympic mascot, Misha, of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (the XXII Summer Olympics). Chizhikov illustrated more than 100 children's books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Chizhikov has received more than 34,984 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Chizhikov is the 1,923rd most popular painter (down from 1,598th in 2019), the 2,303rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,822nd in 2019) and the 81st most popular Russian Painter.

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  • 44.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Victor Chizhikov ranks 1,923 out of 2,023. Before him are Rob Gonsalves, Stuart Davis, Roland Penrose, Colin Campbell Cooper, Ksenia Milicevic, and Vija Celmins. After him are George Caleb Bingham, Jasper Francis Cropsey, J. Alden Weir, Antonín Slavíček, Zdenka Braunerová, and Luke Fildes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Victor Chizhikov ranks 467. Before him are Jim Hall, Anaid Iplicjian, Claude Esteban, Susan Cooper, Arvo Valton, and Daniel Quinn. After him are Vicente Cantatore, Mitsuo Ikeda, Derek Kevan, Larry Kramer, Sylvia Robinson, and Judy Parfitt. Among people deceased in 2020, Victor Chizhikov ranks 603. Before him are Horst Meyer, Miguel Jones, José Jiménez Lozano, MF Doom, Adam Musiał, and Walt Davis. After him are Christian Poncelet, Tom Seaver, Mário da Graça Machungo, Kristina Lugn, Henri Weber, and Enrique Múgica.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Victor Chizhikov ranks 2,303 out of 3,761. Before him are Roman Dmitriyev (1949), Alexey Okladnikov (1908), Aleksandr Poleshchuk (1953), Aleksandr Laveykin (1951), Andrey Rublev (1997), and Dmitry Petrov (1958). After him are Kirill Serebrennikov (1969), Yekaterina Gamova (1980), Nina Agadzhanova (1889), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Igor Presnyakov (1960), and Vladimir Tendryakov (1923).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Victor Chizhikov ranks 81. Before him are Elena Guro (1877), Andrei Kolkoutine (1957), Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871), Aleksandr Petrov (1957), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832), and Yelena Polenova (1850). After him are Valentin Yudashkin (1963), Israel Tsvaygenbaum (1961), El Kazovsky (1948), Viktor Lyapkalo (1956), and Simon Kozhin (1979).

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