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Nikolai Ostrovsky

1904 - 1936

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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский; Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Островський, romanized: Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovskyi; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Ostrovsky is the 828th most popular writer (up from 898th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 118th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Nikolai Ostrovsky is most famous for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 828 out of 7,302. Before him are Colleen McCullough, Zeb-un-Nissa, Wilhelm Hauff, Theodore Beza, Alain-René Lesage, and Elsa Morante. After him are Kobayashi Issa, John Bunyan, Bacchylides, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and John Dos Passos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 40. Before him are Glenn Miller, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Luis Carrero Blanco, Antonín Novotný, Lucile Randon, and Gregory Bateson. After him are George F. Kennan, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Campbell, John Gielgud, George Balanchine, and Charles J. Pedersen. Among people deceased in 1936, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 36. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Moritz Schlick, Antoine Meillet, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Georg Michaelis, and Anne Sullivan. After him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Georgy Chicherin, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Robert E. Howard, Heinrich Rickert, and Karl Pearson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 111 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Paskevich (1782), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), and Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801). After him are Roald Hoffmann (1937), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Ostrovsky ranks 22. Before him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), and Clarice Lispector (1920). After him are Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), and Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909).

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