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Oryol ranks 1,092nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Schaerbeek, Pomona, California, and Changsha. Memorable people born in Oryol include Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Leonid Andreyev. Memorable people who died in Oryol include Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova, and Olga Kameneva. Oryol has been the birth place of many writers and philosophers and the death place of many politicians and social activists. Oryol is located in Russia.

Oryol, also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, situated on the Oka River, approximately 368 kilometers (229 mi) south-southwest of Moscow. It is part of the Central Federal District, as well as the Central Economic Region. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1813 and 1978, Oryol was the birth place of 12 globally memorable people, including Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Leonid Andreyev. Additionaly, 4 globally memorable people have passed away in Oryol including Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova, and Olga Kameneva.

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Most individuals born in present day Oryol were writers (2), philosophers (1), composers (1), economists (1), and painters (1),  while most who died were politicians (2), social activists (1), and mathematicians (1).

Over the past 100 years, cyclists have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Oryol, including Denis Menchov. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Oryol, including Ivan Turgenev and Leonid Andreyev.

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 10 globally memorable people born in Oryol since 1700.