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Bulat Okudzhava

1924 - 1997

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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bulat Okudzhava is the 1,399th most popular writer (down from 1,138th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Russia (down from 404th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Russian Writer.

Bulat Okudzhava is a Soviet and Russian poet, singer, and songwriter. He is most famous for his songs.

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Among writers, Bulat Okudzhava ranks 1,399 out of 7,302. Before him are Wace, Semonides of Amorgos, Wilhelm Weitling, P. D. James, E. L. James, and Mavro Orbini. After him are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Elsa Triolet, Ko Un, Rosika Schwimmer, James Baldwin, and Cees Nooteboom.

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Among people born in 1924, Bulat Okudzhava ranks 86. Before him are Sabu Dastagir, David Bronstein, Kenneth Waltz, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Roza Shanina, and Sverre Fehn. After him are James Baldwin, Hermann Buhl, Claude Sautet, Milka Planinc, Leonid Kogan, and Dorothy Malone. Among people deceased in 1997, Bulat Okudzhava ranks 70. Before him are Marco Ferreri, Fela Kuti, Maria Prymachenko, Gerda Christian, Louis, Prince Napoléon, and Yuri Nikulin. After him are Narciso Yepes, Roland Topor, Mate Boban, Georg Solti, Nikolai Tikhonov, and Alparslan Türkeş.

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Among people born in Russia, Bulat Okudzhava ranks 485 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Filipp Golikov (1900), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Shamil Basayev (1965), and Mehmed I Giray (1465). After him are Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Nikolai Medtner (1879), Vera Zasulich (1849), and Vasily Bartold (1869).

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Among writers born in Russia, Bulat Okudzhava ranks 59. Before him are Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Andrei Platonov (1899), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Alexander Radishchev (1749), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), and Arsen Kotsoyev (1872). After him are Elsa Triolet (1896), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Salawat Yulayev (1754), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Vasily Shukshin (1929), and Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714).

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