WRITER

Yanka Kupala

1882 - 1942

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Yanka Kupala (Belarusian: Янка Купала; July 7 [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yanka Kupala has received more than 86,076 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Yanka Kupala is the 740th most popular writer (up from 760th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Belarus (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Writer.

Yanka Kupala is most famous for the Ukranian tradition of bathing in the river and drinking the water on the night of July 8th. It is believed that if one drinks the water, they will be cured of all their illnesses.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Cultural progress among the non-Russian nationalities of the USSR
1939
Dramatȳchnȳya tvorȳ
1952
Songs as clear as the sky
1982
Only by song
1982

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yanka Kupala ranks 740 out of 7,302. Before him are Cao Xueqin, Walter Raleigh, Sidonius Apollinaris, Otto of Freising, Georg Büchner, and Pierre Boulle. After him are John Dos Passos, Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, Theognis of Megara, A. J. Cronin, and Felix Salten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Yanka Kupala ranks 44. Before him are René Coty, Bela Lugosi, Robert H. Goddard, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Nicolai Hartmann, and Moritz Schlick. After him are Boris Shaposhnikov, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Lluís Companys, Éamon de Valera, and B. Traven. Among people deceased in 1942, Yanka Kupala ranks 23. Before him are Walther von Reichenau, Franz Boas, François Darlan, Irène Némirovsky, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and Sabina Spielrein. After him are Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Kārlis Ulmanis, Carole Lombard, Hector Guimard, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Herschel Grynszpan.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Yanka Kupala ranks 21 out of 368. Before him are Zhores Alferov (1930), Zalman Shazar (1889), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), and Isser Harel (1912). After him are Ossip Zadkine (1888), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Alexander Parvus (1867), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), and Léon Bakst (1866).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Yanka Kupala ranks 2. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932). After him are Yakub Kolas (1882), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), and Bella Rosenfeld (1889).

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