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Nina Kulagina

1926 - 1990

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Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина, born Ninel Mikhaylova) (30 July 1926 – 11 April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis. Academic research of her phenomenon was conducted in the USSR for the last 20 years of her life. Kulagina was suspected of utilizing hidden magnets and threads to perform her feats. She was caught cheating on more than one occasion according to the authors of several books and publications. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nina Kulagina is the 26th most popular occultist (up from 28th in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 657th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Nina Kulagina ranks 26 out of 41. Before her are Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Elias Ashmole, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. After her are Alice Bailey, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Stanislas de Guaita, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Joséphin Péladan, and Franz Bardon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Nina Kulagina ranks 122. Before her are Siegfried Lenz, Verner Panton, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jimmy Savile, Youssef Chahine, and Jürgen Moltmann. After her are Lu'ay al-Atassi, Efraín Ríos Montt, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Abdul Rahim Hatif, Estanislau Basora, and Estanislao Esteban Karlic. Among people deceased in 1990, Nina Kulagina ranks 65. Before her are Vasili Kuznetsov, Philippe Soupault, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Taiichi Ohno, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Manuel Puig. After her are Meir Kahane, Edmund Conen, Art Blakey, Curtis LeMay, Tadeusz Kantor, and Nicola Abbagnano.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nina Kulagina ranks 542 out of 3,761. Before her are Nicholas of Japan (1836), Marina Raskova (1912), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819), and Joseph M. Schenck (1876). After her are Sergei Krikalev (1958), Boris Kustodiev (1878), Lauri Törni (1919), Werner Kempf (1886), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), and Andrei Karlov (1954).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Russia

Among occultists born in Russia, Nina Kulagina ranks 2. Before her are Grigori Rasputin (1869). After her are Sergey Oldenburg (1863).

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