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WRITER

Viktor Suvorov

1947 - Today

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Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (Russian: Владимир Богданович Резун; Ukrainian: Володи́мир Богда́нович Рєзу́н; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United Kingdom in 1978, Suvorov began his writing career, publishing his first books in the 1980s about his own experiences and the structure of the Soviet military, intelligence, and secret police. He writes in Russian with a number of his books translated into English, including his semi-autobiographical The Liberators (1981). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Suvorov has received more than 409,313 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Suvorov is the 1,310th most popular writer (up from 1,538th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Russia (up from 518th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 410k

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  • 58.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Viktor Suvorov ranks 1,310 out of 5,755. Before him are Clément Marot, Samuel Butler, Hristo Botev, Kurt Tucholsky, Monique Wittig, and Alexander Grin. After him are Henry Steel Olcott, Cratinus, Joachim Fest, Daniil Kharms, Ibn al-Nadim, and Magda Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Viktor Suvorov ranks 80. Before him are Carla Del Ponte, Peter Weller, Cozy Powell, Martha Nussbaum, F. R. David, and Alexander Rutskoy. After him are Wes Studi, Temple Grandin, Roy Hodgson, Richard Jenkins, Roger D. Kornberg, and James Patterson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Suvorov ranks 475 out of 3,262. Before him are Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), and Alexander Grin (1880). After him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Olga Knipper (1868), and Aleksandr Dugin (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Viktor Suvorov ranks 60. Before him are Andrei Platonov (1899), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), and Alexander Grin (1880). After him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Alexander Radishchev (1749), and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826).

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