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Ostap Vyshnya

1889 - 1956

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Pavlo Mykhailovych Gubenko (Ukrainian: Павло Михайлович Губенко; 13 November [O.S. 1 November] 1889 – 28 September 1956), better known by the literary pseudonym of Ostap Vyshnia, was a Ukrainian writer, humourist, satirist, and medical official (feldsher). Nicknamed by critics as the Ukrainian Mark Twain and the Ukrainian Printing King; His fame was said to have competed in early Soviet Ukraine with only Taras Shevchenko and Vladimir Lenin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ostap Vyshnya is the 4,331st most popular writer (down from 3,903rd in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 591st in 2019) and the 89th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ostap Vyshnya ranks 4,331 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Kamini Roy, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Vladimir Oravsky, Alexander of Abonoteichus, and Cesare Balbo. After him are Elisabeth Langgässer, Philippa Gregory, Yuri Bondarev, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Jungk, and Joss Whedon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Ostap Vyshnya ranks 208. Before him are Albert Hill, Clifton Webb, Anita Malfatti, G. D. H. Cole, Erwin Stresemann, and Vladimir Sokoloff. After him are James L. Peters, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Vera Karalli, Arnulf Øverland, Beulah Bondi, and Elmo Lincoln. Among people deceased in 1956, Ostap Vyshnya ranks 150. Before him are Flora Sandes, Lewis Terman, Lorenzo Perosi, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Lars Sonck, and Jan Šrámek. After him are Johnny Claes, Robert Julius Trumpler, María Teresa Ferrari, Guido Boni, Grigory Shajn, and Teresa Feoderovna Ries.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ostap Vyshnya ranks 654 out of 1,365. Before him are Vasyl Stefanyk (1871), Volodymyr Groysman (1978), Nadezhda Tkachenko (1948), Ivan Martos (1754), Sergey Kozlov (1963), and Emma Andijewska (1931). After him are Aleksander Ford (1908), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929), Anatoliy Konkov (1949), and Petro Grigorenko (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ostap Vyshnya ranks 89. Before him are Jan Brzechwa (1898), David Bergelson (1884), Ida Fink (1921), Sofia Yablonska (1907), Vasyl Stefanyk (1871), and Emma Andijewska (1931). After him are Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929), Milena Rudnytska (1892), Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Margarita Aliger (1915), Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892), and Mykola Khvylovy (1893).

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