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Natalya Gorbanevskaya

1936 - 2013

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Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian: Ната́лья Евге́ньевна Горбане́вская, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvnə ɡərbɐˈnʲefskəjə] ; 26 May 1936 – 29 November 2013) was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982). On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Natalya Gorbanevskaya is the 3,857th most popular writer (down from 3,665th in 2019), the 1,369th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,345th in 2019) and the 168th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Natalya Gorbanevskaya ranks 3,857 out of 7,302Before her are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Mykola Bazhan, Txillardegi, Lev Nussimbaum, Konstantin Fedin, and Greg Bear. After her are Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Frédéric Beigbeder, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Marie-Claire Blais, David Brin, and José Emilio Pacheco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Natalya Gorbanevskaya ranks 296Before her are Jean-Claude Turcotte, Elisabeth Kopp, Diana Hyland, Christopher Alexander, Kazuo Koike, and Emil Loteanu. After her are Lino Banfi, Alex Rocco, Isacio Calleja, K Callan, Renato Corti, and Mustafa Ould Salek. Among people deceased in 2013, Natalya Gorbanevskaya ranks 241Before her are Torbjørn Falkanger, Eileen Brennan, Hennadiy Udovenko, George Duke, Martin Koeman, and Otto Muehl. After her are Peter Banks, Henning Larsen, Ignacio Eizaguirre, Zdeněk Zikán, Eero Mäntyranta, and Zlatko Papec.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Natalya Gorbanevskaya ranks 1,369 out of 3,761Before her are Ivan Larionov (1830), Alexander Rodimtsev (1905), Zara Dolukhanova (1918), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Konstantin Fedin (1892), and Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786). After her are Valentina Tolkunova (1946), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Fyodor Dan (1871), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Dmitri Egorov (1869), and Alexey Bogolyubov (1824).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Natalya Gorbanevskaya ranks 168Before her are Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Anton Delvig (1798), Daniil Granin (1919), Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), and Konstantin Fedin (1892). After her are Helena Roerich (1879), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Apollon Maykov (1821), and Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859).