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Evgeny Sveshnikov

1950 - 2021

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Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Russian: Евгений Эллинович Свешников; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer who is credited with the development of the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Evgeny Sveshnikov is the 5,533rd most popular writer (up from 5,559th in 2019), the 2,078th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,105th in 2019) and the 251st most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Evgeny Sveshnikov ranks 5,533 out of 7,302. Before him are Val McDermid, Lydia Maria Child, Xaviera Hollander, Shankha Ghosh, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and Leonard Howell. After him are Wang Meng, Steven Moffat, Marina Lewycka, Madeline Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Élie Blanchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Evgeny Sveshnikov ranks 481. Before him are Bernard Le Coq, Zdravka Yordanova, Ofelia Medina, Kenzo Suzuki, Tadeusz Ślusarski, and Alan Sorrenti. After him are Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Theo Custers, Joseph Paul Franklin, Willie Colón, Bertrand Meyer, and Yuri Shchekochikhin. Among people deceased in 2021, Evgeny Sveshnikov ranks 496. Before him are Buddy Van Horn, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Gerry Ashmore, Lubomir Kavalek, Peter Del Monte, and Shankha Ghosh. After him are Andrzej Zieliński, Dorothy Manley, Marco Maciel, Bonfoh Abass, Gabriel Núñez, and Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Evgeny Sveshnikov ranks 2,078 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksei Mamykin (1936), Anton Yelchin (1989), Oleg Romantsev (1954), Marina Ratner (1938), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), and Nadezhda Kadysheva (1959). After him are Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Georgy Ushakov (1901), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), Olga Bondarenko (1960), Yelena Safonova (1956), and Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Evgeny Sveshnikov ranks 251. Before him are Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Lev Mei (1822), Nikolai Pogodin (1900), Alexander Shishkov (1754), and Pentti Saarikoski (1937). After him are Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Darya Dontsova (1952), Yuri Samarin (1819), Vasily Belov (1932), Majit Gafuri (1880), and Semyon Nadson (1862).

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