WRITER

Viktor Astafyev

1924 - 2001

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Viktor Petrovich Astafyev (Russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Аста́фьев; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001) was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. He was recognized with the title Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Astafyev is the 3,302nd most popular writer (up from 3,372nd in 2019), the 1,155th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,245th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Viktor Astafyev ranks 3,302 out of 7,302Before him are Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, Richard Baxter, Booker T. Washington, Borislav Pekić, Nataliya Kobrynska, and Leopoldo Lugones. After him are Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Driss Chraïbi, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Johannes von Tepl, Edmund White, and Johann Ernst Glück.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Viktor Astafyev ranks 226Before him are Genichi Taguchi, Ferdinando Terruzzi, Charles Coste, Werner Kohlmeyer, Yuri Orlov, and Aman Andom. After him are Ken Armstrong, Isadore Singer, Eduardo Paolozzi, Juan Carlos González, Max Roach, and Jean-François Revel. Among people deceased in 2001, Viktor Astafyev ranks 145Before him are Kathleen Freeman, Melanie Thornton, Robert Enrico, Philippe Léotard, Hans Münch, and Juan Bosch. After him are Luiz Bonfá, Alexey Maresyev, Chuck Schuldiner, Mike Mentzer, David Lewis, and Ri Kun-mo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Astafyev ranks 1,155 out of 3,761Before him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Natalia Gutman (1942), Sergei Shtemenko (1907), Yuri Orlov (1924), Matrona Nikonova (1881), and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940). After him are Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887), Vera Alentova (1942), Elvira Nabiullina (1963), Alexey Maresyev (1916), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Viktor Astafyev ranks 135Before him are Philotheus of Pskov (1465), Alexey Troitsky (1866), Andrei Amalrik (1938), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), and Valentin Rasputin (1937). After him are Agniya Barto (1906), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Olena Teliha (1906), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Denis Davydov (1784), and Aino Kallas (1878).