1947 - Today
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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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.
1495 - 1544
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,304
1612 - 1680
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,305
1848 - 1876
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,306
1890 - 1935
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,307
1935 - 2003
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,308
1880 - 1932
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,309
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 1,310
1832 - 1907
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,311
500 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 1,312
1926 - 2006
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,313
1905 - 1942
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,314
1000 - 995
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,315
1917 - 2007
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,316
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.
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 74
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 75
1947 - 1998
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 76
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 77
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 78
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 79
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 80
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 81
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 82
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 83
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 84
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 85
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 86
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).
1899 - 1980
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 469
1859 - 1919
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 470
1787 - 1869
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 471
1942 - 2019
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 472
1783 - 1835
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 473
1880 - 1932
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 474
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 475
1905 - 1942
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 476
1903 - 1945
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 477
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 478
1500 - 1475
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 479
1868 - 1959
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 480
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 481
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).
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 54
1870 - 1938
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 55
1923 - 2003
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 56
1826 - 1871
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 57
1899 - 1980
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 58
1880 - 1932
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 59
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 60
1905 - 1942
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 61
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 62
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 63
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 64
1749 - 1802
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 65
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 66