WRITER

Boris Polevoy

1908 - 1981

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Boris Nikolayevich Polevoy (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Полево́й; 17 March [O.S. 4 March] 1908 – 12 July 1981) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, journalist and war correspondent. He is the author of the book The Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Polevoy is the 3,546th most popular writer (down from 3,381st in 2019), the 1,247th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,251st in 2019) and the 147th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Boris Polevoy ranks 3,546 out of 7,302. Before him are Torben Ulrich, Pietro Carrera, Oskar Maria Graf, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Herman Grimm, and Charles Simon Favart. After him are Lois Lowry, Ćamil Sijarić, Grigor Parlichev, Veijo Meri, Ennio Flaiano, and Johann Christian Günther.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Boris Polevoy ranks 190. Before him are Nikolay Nosov, Jean Effel, Elek Schwartz, Pedro Arico Suárez, Fred MacMurray, and Jorge Oteiza. After him are Erik Lundqvist, Karl Hohmann, Juan Botasso, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Jacques Herbrand, and Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling. Among people deceased in 1981, Boris Polevoy ranks 134. Before him are Edward Lasker, Beatrice Tinsley, Zoilo Saldombide, Morris Kirksey, François Bordes, and Bobby Sands. After him are Constantin Rădulescu, Julio Libonatti, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Philippe Étancelin, Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, and Robert Montgomery.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Polevoy ranks 1,247 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexey Venetsianov (1780), Fyodor Rostopchin (1763), Mikhail Prokhorov (1965), Yevhen Rudakov (1942), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), and Ivan Mosjoukine (1889). After him are Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Ekaterina Maximova (1939), Veijo Meri (1928), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Natalya Kovshova (1920), and Anatoly Marchenko (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Boris Polevoy ranks 147. Before him are Aino Kallas (1878), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Zacharias Werner (1768), and Kir Bulychev (1934). After him are Veijo Meri (1928), Victor Pelevin (1962), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), and Gaito Gazdanov (1903).

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