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Yury Vlasov

1935 - 2021

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Yury Petrovich Vlasov (Russian: Юрий Петрович Власов; 5 December 1935 – 13 February 2021) was a Soviet (Ukrainian born) 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 234,705 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Yury Vlasov is the 3,170th most popular writer (up from 3,957th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 509th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yury Vlasov ranks 3,170 out of 5,755Before him are Diphilus, Fernand Crommelynck, Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, David Foster Wallace, Moderata Fonte, and Sigurd Hoel. After him are Alexander Sumarokov, Karl Philipp Moritz, Archpoet, Guan Daosheng, Joss Whedon, and Tristan Bernard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Yury Vlasov ranks 189Before him are Gerhard Mitter, Alain Barrière, La Monte Young, Jiří Čadek, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Antonios Naguib. After him are Percy Adlon, Peret, Friðrik Ólafsson, Diahann Carroll, Valerio Adami, and Yıldırım Akbulut. Among people deceased in 2021, Yury Vlasov ranks 306Before him are Udo Zimmermann, Otar Patsatsia, Romano Fogli, Jiří Čadek, Kamal Ganzouri, and Gerry Ashmore. After him are Frederic Rzewski, Philippe Jaccottet, Françoise Arnoul, Margitta Gummel, Christian Tumi, and Casimir Oyé-Mba.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yury Vlasov ranks 454 out of 1,083Before him are Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923), Ber Borochov (1881), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Vitold Fokin (1932), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), and Ingeborg of Kiev (1100). After him are Alexander Gerschenkron (1904), Yuri Lisyansky (1773), Ilya Kabakov (1933), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Leonid Bykov (1928), and Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Yury Vlasov ranks 61Before him are Maksym Rylsky (1895), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), and Rose Ausländer (1901). After him are Yury Olesha (1899), Demyan Bedny (1883), Ida Fink (1921), Oles Honchar (1918), Ilya Ilf (1897), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898).