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Yuri Bezmenov

1939 - 1993

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Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; December 11, 1939 – January 5, 1993; alias: Tomas David Schuman) was a Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency (APN). In 1970, as a member of the KGB Soviet mission in New Delhi, India, Bezmenov defected to the West and was re-settled in Canada pursuant to an arrangement between American and Canadian security agencies. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Bezmenov has received more than 1,987,427 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Bezmenov is the 54th most popular journalist, the 1,231st most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

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  • 50.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Yuri Bezmenov ranks 54 out of 127Before him are Marcel Bezençon, Maria Ressa, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Bill Brandt, Kazimierz Nowak, and Mauricio Funes. After him are Edward R. Murrow, Jacob Riis, Francesco Alberoni, Sue Gardner, Plínio Salgado, and Norbert Haug.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Yuri Bezmenov ranks 245Before him are James Galway, Peter Revson, Brigitte Fontaine, Tigran Mansurian, Corin Redgrave, and Tetsuya Chiba. After him are Arik Einstein, Breyten Breytenbach, Zenon Grocholewski, Harry Reid, Phil Read, and Valery Voronin. Among people deceased in 1993, Yuri Bezmenov ranks 123Before him are Valentina Grizodubova, Reuben Fine, David Koresh, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Eleanor Hibbert, and Buddhadasa. After him are Guido Masetti, Mick Ronson, Wilhelm Gliese, Clarence Zener, Hans Christian Blech, and Thurgood Marshall.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Bezmenov ranks 1,231 out of 3,262Before him are Andrey Kurkov (1961), Natalia Gutman (1942), Vladimir Basov (1923), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), and Victor Pelevin (1962). After him are Boris Yegorov (1937), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), August von Werder (1808), and Nina Ponomaryova (1929).

Among JOURNALISTS In Russia

Among journalists born in Russia, Yuri Bezmenov ranks 1After him are Vladislav Listyev (1956), Dmitry Kiselyov (1954), Vladimir Solovyov (1963), Margarita Simonyan (1980), and Zhanna Nemtsova (1984).