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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

1933 - 2017

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the 1,012th most popular writer (down from 913th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Russia (down from 313th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Russian Writer.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is most famous for his poem Babi Yar, which was written in response to the Holocaust. The poem is a memorial to the Jews who were killed by Nazis during World War II.

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Among writers, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 1,012 out of 7,302. Before him are E. M. Forster, Henri Troyat, Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Dalton Trumbo. After him are Khachatur Abovian, André Bazin, Yosa Buson, Fyodor Tyutchev, Nicolas Chamfort, and Johann Peter Eckermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 80. Before him are Godfried Danneels, Richard S. Castellano, Peter Mansfield, Horst Buchholz, Wilbur Smith, and Sam Jones. After him are Teresa Berganza, Waichiro Omura, Henryk Górecki, Tomislav Ivić, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, and Yasukazu Tanaka. Among people deceased in 2017, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 66. Before him are Elsa Martinelli, Harry Dean Stanton, Graham Taylor, Peter Mansfield, John Heard, and Jean Rochefort. After him are Yisrael Kristal, Al Jarreau, Giovanni Sartori, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Georges Prêtre, and Chris Cornell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 341 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Valery Leontiev (1949), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Henri Troyat (1911), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943). After him are Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Michael Chekhov (1891), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), and Avvakum (1620).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yevgeny Yevtushenko ranks 37. Before him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Henri Troyat (1911), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943). After him are Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Nikolai Leskov (1831).

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