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Yevgeny Zamyatin

1884 - 1937

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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn]; 1 February [O.S. 20 January] 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik. As a member of his Party's Pre-Revolutionary underground, Zamyatin was repeatedly arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and exiled. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Zamyatin has received more than 687,361 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Yevgeny Zamyatin is the 460th most popular writer (up from 548th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Russia (up from 188th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Writer.

Yevgeny Zamyatin is most famous for his novel We, which was published in 1924.

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  • 72.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 460 out of 7,302. Before him are Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, Graham Greene, Vasily Grossman, and Lesya Ukrainka. After him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, Marguerite de Navarre, Saint-John Perse, John Galsworthy, and Eyvind Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 22. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bergius, Gaston Bachelard, Hermann Rorschach, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof. After him are Theodor Svedberg, Auguste Piccard, Vincent Auriol, Walther von Reichenau, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Emil Jannings. Among people deceased in 1937, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 16. Before him are Amelia Earhart, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, and Gustaf Dalén. After him are Gerda Taro, J. M. Barrie, Austen Chamberlain, J. Bruce Ismay, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Gaston Doumergue.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 154 out of 3,761. Before him are Gala Dalí (1894), Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903). After him are Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Mikhail Glinka (1804), and Alexander Friedmann (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 20. Before him are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938). After him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Alexander Herzen (1812), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883).

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