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Yury Grigorovich

1927 - Today

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Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Григоро́вич; born 2 January 1927 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yury Grigorovich has received more than 84,521 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yury Grigorovich is the 68th most popular dancer (down from 56th in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,406th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Dancer.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Yury Grigorovich ranks 68 out of 76. Before him are Birju Maharaj, Alvin Ailey, Kenneth MacMillan, Marie Rambert, Birgit Cullberg, and Maria Tallchief. After him are Vera Karalli, Adam Darius, Olga Spessivtseva, Sylvie Guillem, Micheline Bernardini, and Joaquín Cortés.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Yury Grigorovich ranks 262. Before him are David Dinkins, Rodolfo Walsh, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Mathé Altéry, Lars Hall, and Elisabeth Söderström. After him are Dimitar Iliev Popov, Don Revie, Arturo Armando Molina, Laura Cardoso, Pasqualino De Santis, and L. K. Advani.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yury Grigorovich ranks 1,501 out of 3,262. Before him are Julia Lermontova (1847), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Vera Panova (1905), Abraham of Smolensk (1172), Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (1966), and Alexander Dityatin (1957). After him are Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Sophia Parnok (1885), Lyubov Kozyreva (1929), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor Severyanin (1887), and Raisa Smetanina (1952).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Yury Grigorovich ranks 14. Before him are Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Lev Ivanov (1834), Alexander Godunov (1949), Léonide Massine (1896), Lydia Lopokova (1892), and Vladimir Vasiliev (1940). After him are Vera Karalli (1889), Olga Spessivtseva (1895), Avdotia Istomina (1799), and Polina Semionova (1984).

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