SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

1923 - 1941

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Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (Russian: Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская, IPA: [ˈzojə kəsmədʲɪˈmʲjanskəjə]; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany. But after stories emerged of her defiance towards her captors, she was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya has received more than 506,428 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is the 159th most popular social activist (down from 114th in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from Russia (down from 334th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Social Activist.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan during World War II. She was captured by the Nazis and tortured to death. She is most famous for her bravery and her defiance in the face of death.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ranks 159 out of 840. Before her are Dmitry Muratov, Jacques Roux, Gerda Christian, Sergey Nechayev, Ales Bialiatski, and Yiannis Ritsos. After her are Rudi Dutschke, Alexander Pechersky, Mordechai Vanunu, Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Douglass, and Rigoberta Menchú.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ranks 59. Before her are Stephanie Kwolek, Horst Tappert, Dev Anand, Freeman Dyson, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Chaleo Yoovidhya. After her are Merton Miller, Robert Maxwell, Vladimir Gelfand, Rasul Gamzatov, Antony Flew, and Cliff Robertson. Among people deceased in 1941, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ranks 48. Before her are Frederick Griffith, Annie Jump Cannon, Dmitry Pavlov, Tullio Levi-Civita, Rudolf Hilferding, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After her are Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, Maria Spiridonova, Edwin S. Porter, Gaetano Mosca, and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ranks 456 out of 3,761. Before her are Dmitry Muratov (1961), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Ales Bialiatski (1962), Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), and Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554). After her are Yuri Nikulin (1921), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Leonid Rogozov (1934), Vasily Bartold (1869), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Lyubov Popova (1889).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ranks 11. Before her are Alexei Navalny (1976), Witold Pilecki (1901), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Dmitry Muratov (1961), Sergey Nechayev (1847), and Ales Bialiatski (1962). After her are Maria Spiridonova (1884), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), and Vera Figner (1852).

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