WRITER

Yury Vlasov

1935 - 2021

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Yury Petrovich Vlasov (Russian: Юрий Петрович Власов; 5 December 1935 – 13 February 2021) was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, writer and politician. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games, he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union. During his career, Vlasov won four world titles and set 31 ratified world records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yury Vlasov has received more than 253,455 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Yury Vlasov is the 3,046th most popular writer (up from 3,158th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 451st in 2019) and the 58th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yury Vlasov ranks 3,046 out of 7,302. Before him are Francisco Balagtas, Vydūnas, Anyte of Tegea, Dmitry Pisarev, Theodor Kallifatides, and Charles Blanc. After him are Hamnet Shakespeare, Jens Fink-Jensen, José María Arguedas, Azalais de Porcairagues, Nikolay Nosov, and Tarafa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Yury Vlasov ranks 193. Before him are Julio Jaramillo, Lisa Gastoni, Patricia Bredin, Antonios Naguib, Michael Ballhaus, and Mohammed Basindawa. After him are Donald P. Bellisario, Alfonso López Trujillo, Lando Buzzanca, José Sanfilippo, Judith Reisman, and Dieter Hallervorden. Among people deceased in 2021, Yury Vlasov ranks 220. Before him are Koichi Sugiyama, Branko Mamula, Lars Norén, Clive Sinclair, Kjell Askildsen, and Marc Ferro. After him are Roger Hunt, Louis Andriessen, Margitta Gummel, Lamine Diack, Freimut Börngen, and Yevhen Marchuk.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yury Vlasov ranks 450 out of 1,365. Before him are Boris Iofan (1891), Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Yury Olesha (1899), Emil Paur (1855), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), and Arkady Luxemburg (1939). After him are Nikolay Nosov (1908), Giacomo Rizzolatti (1937), Grigory Chukhray (1921), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), Vlas Chubar (1881), and Petro Symonenko (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Yury Vlasov ranks 58. Before him are Israel Zolli (1881), Lev Kopelev (1912), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Anatoly Rybakov (1911), Rose Ausländer (1901), and Yury Olesha (1899). After him are Nikolay Nosov (1908), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Demyan Bedny (1883), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Leone Ginzburg (1909), and Pavlo Tychyna (1891).

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