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Yury Grigorovich

1927 - Today

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Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Григорович; born 2 January 1927) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer and pedagogue who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yury Grigorovich has received more than 94,286 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yury Grigorovich is the 76th most popular dancer (down from 68th in 2019), the 1,703rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,497th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Dancer.

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  • 94k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Yury Grigorovich ranks 76 out of 116. Before him are Mrinalini Sarabhai, Alicia Markova, Olga Spessivtseva, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Hans van Manen, and Birgit Cullberg. After him are Sylvie Guillem, Marie Rambert, Joaquín Cortés, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Doris Humphrey, and Natalia Dudinskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Yury Grigorovich ranks 293. Before him are Håkon Brusveen, Thomas S. Monson, Zdravko Rajkov, Jacques Dupin, Rodolfo Walsh, and Frank Sedgman. After him are Carl Switzer, Victor Mees, Marie Kovářová, Pasqualino De Santis, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Clint Walker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yury Grigorovich ranks 1,703 out of 3,761. Before him are Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Fyodor Khitruk (1917), Barys Kit (1910), Agnes Miegel (1879), Anatoli Ilyin (1931), and Valeri Zolotukhin (1941). After him are Marina Ladynina (1908), Tamara Rylova (1931), Alexander Pichushkin (1974), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Irina Alfyorova (1951), and Vitaly Bianki (1894).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Yury Grigorovich ranks 17. Before him are Léonide Massine (1896), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), Lydia Lopokova (1892), Vera Karalli (1889), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), and Olga Spessivtseva (1895). After him are Avdotia Istomina (1799), Diana Vishneva (1976), and Polina Semionova (1984).

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