WRITER

Yuri Vizbor

1934 - 1984

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Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor. Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and press correspondent, a ski instructor, and an actor in many Russian films and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Vizbor has received more than 68,155 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yuri Vizbor is the 4,417th most popular writer (up from 4,423rd in 2019), the 1,617th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,585th in 2019) and the 208th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 68k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yuri Vizbor ranks 4,417 out of 7,302. Before him are Kikkuli, Greg Bear, Janwillem van de Wetering, Raghunath Murmu, Mykola Kulish, and Sara Lidman. After him are Gerbrand Bredero, Eggert Ólafsson, Stanislas Julien, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Adrienne Clarkson, and Félix María de Samaniego.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yuri Vizbor ranks 305. Before him are Hamit Kaplan, Joanna Moore, Anna Kashfi, Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Marek Hłasko, and Alan Baddeley. After him are Paolo Sardi, Rodri, Gérard Latortue, Gergely Kulcsár, Junior Wells, and Leonid Stein. Among people deceased in 1984, Yuri Vizbor ranks 163. Before him are Luke Kelly, Kurt Martti Wallenius, Niyazi, Kenneth Arnold, Wolfgang Staudte, and Max Newman. After him are Pierre Emmanuel, Jakub Berman, Adalbert Steiner, Diana Dors, Alexander Moyzes, and Red Garland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Vizbor ranks 1,617 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Bondarev (1924), Alexei Lubimov (1944), Irina Privalova (1968), Nikolai Kryuchkov (1911), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), and Natalia Kuchinskaya (1949). After him are Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907), Viktoria Mullova (1959), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Anatoly Chukanov (1954), and Ivan Maslennikov (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yuri Vizbor ranks 208. Before him are Reinhard Bonnke (1940), Yury Trifonov (1925), Feodor Gladkov (1883), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), and Yuri Bondarev (1924). After him are Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Igor Severyanin (1887), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), M. Ageyev (1898), Alexander Bek (1903), and Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903).

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