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Alexander Belyaev

1884 - 1942

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Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Беля́ев, [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ bʲɪˈlʲæɪf]; 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1884 – 6 January 1942) was a Soviet Russian writer of science fiction. His works from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded figure in Russian science fiction, often referred to as "Russia's Jules Verne". Belyaev's best known novels include Professor Dowell's Head, Amphibian Man, Ariel, and The Air Seller. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Belyaev is the 2,075th most popular writer (down from 1,695th in 2019), the 724th most popular biography from Russia (down from 604th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Belyaev ranks 2,075 out of 7,302. Before him are Sabahattin Ali, Salvadore Cammarano, Christopher Isherwood, Aphrahat, Gustav Schwab, and Anastasius Sinaita. After him are Oscar Milosz, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Isaac the Blind, Ibn al-Farid, Piotr Skarga, and Elsa Beskow.

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Among people born in 1884, Alexander Belyaev ranks 70. Before him are Georg Lindemann, Jean Paulhan, Mikhail Borodin, Helene Deutsch, Joseph Boxhall, and Clark L. Hull. After him are Ivan Maisky, Antoine Pevsner, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Peter Fraser, Tanzan Ishibashi, and Halide Edib Adıvar. Among people deceased in 1942, Alexander Belyaev ranks 82. Before him are Harro Schulze-Boysen, Erwin Schulhoff, Leonid Kulik, Julio González, Henk Sneevliet, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Georges Politzer, Alois Eliáš, Walther von Lüttwitz, Titus Brandsma, Lidia Zamenhof, and Valdemar Poulsen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Belyaev ranks 724 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Shvernik (1888), Karl Lennart Oesch (1892), Sergei Belov (1944), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Oleg Popov (1930), and Yekaterina Budanova (1916). After him are Caran d'Ache (1858), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Lev Rudnev (1885), Ivan Maisky (1884), Catherine of Brandenburg (1604), and Praskovia Saltykova (1664).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Belyaev ranks 86. Before him are Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), Marko Vovchok (1833), and Eduard Uspensky (1937). After him are Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Andrey Kurkov (1961), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Nina Berberova (1901), and Olga Rozanova (1886).

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