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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 79,224 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Yanka Kupala is the 761st most popular writer (down from 735th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 16th 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

  • 79k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yanka Kupala ranks 761 out of 5,755. Before him are Dalton Trumbo, Multatuli, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Sayat-Nova, Lawrence Durrell, and Colleen McCullough. After him are Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen Covey, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie de France, Venantius Fortunatus, and Cesare Pavese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Yanka Kupala ranks 46. Before him are Robert H. Goddard, Boris Shaposhnikov, René Coty, Moritz Schlick, Karol Szymanowski, and Otto Neurath. After him are Friedrich Dollmann, John Rabe, B. Traven, Lluís Companys, Éamon de Valera, and Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1942, Yanka Kupala ranks 30. Before him are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Jozef Gabčík, Bruno Schulz, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Michel Fokine, and Kārlis Ulmanis. After him are Herschel Grynszpan, Séraphine Louis, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Hausdorff, Henri de Baillet-Latour, and Prince George, Duke of Kent.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Yanka Kupala ranks 18 out of 330. Before him are Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Meyer Lansky (1902), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Chaim Soutine (1893), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), and Hacı I Giray (1397). After him are Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Ossip Zadkine (1888), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), and Francysk Skaryna (1486).

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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), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), Oscar Milosz (1877), S. Ansky (1863), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), and Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930).

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