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 431,856 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Suvorov is the 1,377th most popular writer (down from 1,307th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 474th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ledokol
Campaigns, Causes, Diplomatic history
1989
Posledni︠a︡i︠a︡ respublika
World War, 1939-1945, Causes, Diplomatic history
1995
The liberators
Biography, History, Military
1981
Kontrol
Biography, Fiction, History
1994
Inside the Soviet Army
Armiia, History, Soviet Union
1982
Spetsnaz
Commando troops, Special forces (Military science), Armed Forces
1987
Inside the Soviet Army
Armiia, History, Soviet Union
1982
Ledokol
Campaigns, Causes, Diplomatic history
1989
Самоубийство ; Зачем Гитлер напал на Советский Союз?
World War, 1939-1945, Relations, Diplomatic history
2000
Posledni︠a︡i︠a︡ respublika
World War, 1939-1945, Causes, Diplomatic history
1995
Spetsnaz
Commando troops, Special forces (Military science), Armed Forces
1987
The liberators
Biography, History, Military
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Viktor Suvorov ranks 1,377 out of 7,302. Before him are Joanot Martorell, Hartmann von Aue, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Rex Stout, Robert Wilson, and Seymour Hersh. After him are Robert Browning, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Viktor Suvorov ranks 104. Before him are Wes Studi, Marouf al-Bakhit, Anne Wiazemsky, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Mitt Romney. After him are Jerzy Popiełuszko, Patrick Dewaere, Ron Dennis, Marisa Berenson, Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, and Cozy Powell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Suvorov ranks 492 out of 3,761. Before him are Olga Knipper (1868), Valentin Pavlov (1937), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Vera Zasulich (1849), and Mikhail Gurevich (1892). After him are Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Viktor Suvorov ranks 61. Before him are Alexander Radishchev (1749), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), and Edith Södergran (1892). After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), and Konstantin Simonov (1915).

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