SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vladimir Bukovsky

1942 - 2019

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Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; 30 December 1942 – 27 October 2019) was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union during Brezhnev rule.After being expelled from the Soviet Union in late 1976, Bukovsky remained in vocal opposition to the Soviet system and the shortcomings of its successor regimes in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Bukovsky has received more than 498,523 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Vladimir Bukovsky is the 170th most popular social activist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Russia and the 13th most popular Russian Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vladimir Bukovskies by language

Over the past year Vladimir Bukovsky has had the most page views in the with 103,122 views, followed by English (42,193), and Polish (7,506). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (72.88%), Simple English (58.81%), and Esperanto (52.88%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vladimir Bukovsky ranks 170 out of 840. Before him are Frederick Douglass, Rigoberta Menchú, Otoya Yamaguchi, René Just Haüy, Kittur Chennamma, and Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid. After him are Emilie Schindler, Ilya Ulyanov, Sojourner Truth, Chico Mendes, Judas of Galilee, and Billy Milligan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vladimir Bukovsky ranks 117. Before him are Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Lee Kun-hee, Terry Jones, Britt Ekland, Pedro Rocha, and Hannu Mikkola. After him are Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Karen Grassle, Anita Pallenberg, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, António Lobo Antunes, and Felice Gimondi. Among people deceased in 2019, Vladimir Bukovsky ranks 74. Before him are Rosamunde Pilcher, Alicia Alonso, Ratko Janev, Paul Greengard, Dragoslav Šekularac, and Jan-Michael Vincent. After him are John Robert Schrieffer, Nikolai Kardashev, Luke Perry, Felice Gimondi, André Previn, and Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Bukovsky ranks 471 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigory Sokolov (1950), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097), Shamil Basayev (1965), and Pavel Milyukov (1859). After him are Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), and Yuri Lotman (1922).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Vladimir Bukovsky ranks 13. Before him are Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Dmitry Muratov (1961), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Ales Bialiatski (1962), Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), and Maria Spiridonova (1884). After him are Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Vera Figner (1852), Alexander Antonov (1889), and Sergey Taboritsky (1897).

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