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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

1933 - 2017

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet-Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Yevtushenko has received more than 529,952 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the 914th most popular writer (down from 875th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Russia (up from 315th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Writer.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is most famous for his poem Babi Yar, which was written in response to the Holocaust. The poem is a memorial to the Jews who were killed by Nazis during World War II.

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  • 530k

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  • 62.56

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 914 out of 7,302. Before him are Branislav Nušić, Abraham Abulafia, Gnaeus Naevius, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Achim von Arnim, and L. Ron Hubbard. After him are Johann Kaspar Lavater, Anna Seghers, Walter Lippmann, Božena Němcová, Thomas Wolfe, and Clifford D. Simak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 58. Before him are Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Robson, Wilbur Smith, Ilia II of Georgia, and Cormac McCarthy. After him are John Gurdon, Tomislav Ivić, Philip Zimbardo, Mathieu Kérékou, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, and Horst Buchholz. Among people deceased in 2017, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 50. Before him are George A. Romero, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Harry Dean Stanton, Kenneth Arrow, Oliver Smithies, and Jonathan Demme. After him are Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Al Jarreau, Danielle Darrieux, John Surtees, George Andrew Olah, and Chester Bennington.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 313 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexandre Kojève (1902), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Georgy Chicherin (1872), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), and Nikolai Patrushev (1951). After him are Karl Bryullov (1799), Leonid Govorov (1897), Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), and Andrey Markov (1856).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 34. Before him are Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexander Blok (1880), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), and Viktor Shklovsky (1893). After him are Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), and Henri Troyat (1911).

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