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WRITER

Yevgeny Petrov

1902 - 1942

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Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni, (Евгений Петрович Петров, born Katayev (Катаев); December 13 [O.S. November 30] 1902 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Petrov has received more than 5,303 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Petrov is the 3,669th most popular writer (down from 3,604th in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 473rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 1.87

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  • 3.59

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yevgeny Petrov ranks 3,669 out of 5,755Before him are Kurd Lasswitz, Tevfik Fikret, Gloria Fuertes, Fumiko Enchi, Mouloud Mammeri, and Georgette Heyer. After him are Stevan Sremac, Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Alexandru Macedonski, E. B. White, Mordecai Richler, and Bernard-Marie Koltès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Yevgeny Petrov ranks 183Before him are Andrés Mazali, George Kingsley Zipf, Son House, Ilmari Salminen, André Patry, and Georgette Heyer. After him are Yakov Smushkevich, Beryl Markham, Flora Robson, Henry Hansen, Veniamin Kaverin, and Juan José Tramutola. Among people deceased in 1942, Yevgeny Petrov ranks 141Before him are Daniel Alomía Robles, Harald Tammer, George Andrew Reisner, Jack Greenwell, Albert Kahn, and Nikola Vaptsarov. After him are Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Xiao Hong, Emil von Sauer, Renia Spiegel, August von Gödrich, and Eusebio Ayala.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yevgeny Petrov ranks 520 out of 1,083Before him are Vladimir Smirnov (1954), Georgy Shonin (1935), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Nikolai Podvoisky (1880), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), and Semyon Ignatyev (1904). After him are Mykola Avilov (1948), Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), Roman Karmen (1906), Weegee (1899), Ossip Bernstein (1882), and Dmitry Sipyagin (1853).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Yevgeny Petrov ranks 71Before him are Oles Honchar (1918), Ilya Ilf (1897), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), David Bergelson (1884), Viktor Nekrasov (1911), and Abraham Goldfaden (1840). After him are Mykola Bazhan (1904), Jan Brzechwa (1898), Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934), Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), Vladimir Megre (1950), and Itzik Feffer (1900).