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Yuri Vizbor

1934 - 1984

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Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor. Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and press correspondent, a ski instructor, and an actor in many Russian films and plays. He participated in and documented expeditions to remote areas of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Vizbor is the 4,766th most popular writer (down from 4,417th in 2019), the 1,746th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,617th in 2019) and the 221st most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yuri Vizbor ranks 4,766 out of 7,302. Before him are Marek Hłasko, Thomas Middleton, Quentin Crisp, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, and Pencho Slaveykov. After him are Henri Alleg, Jenő Rejtő, Larry Collins, Michael Cristofer, Hallgrímur Helgason, and Stefano Benni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yuri Vizbor ranks 359. Before him are Jaegwon Kim, Jef Planckaert, Joan Hackett, Marek Hłasko, Takayuki Kubota, and Peter McParland. After him are Héctor De Bourgoing, Shyam Benegal, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Kurt Armbruster, Shirley Douglas, and Shirley Horn. Among people deceased in 1984, Yuri Vizbor ranks 179. Before him are Diana Dors, Jakub Berman, Marcel Moyse, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Alice Neel, and Rambai Barni. After him are Anders Haugen, Gino Bianco, May McAvoy, K. D. Jadhav, Leopold Lindtberg, and Aldo Campatelli.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Vizbor ranks 1,746 out of 3,761. Before him are Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (1966), Boris Shilkov (1927), Alexander Belov (1951), Nikolai Semashko (1874), Leonid Filatov (1946), and Anatoly Kvashnin (1946). After him are Igor Severyanin (1887), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), and Maxim Kontsevich (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yuri Vizbor ranks 221. Before him are Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Alexander Bek (1903), Fyodor Abramov (1920), and Vitaly Bianki (1894). After him are Igor Severyanin (1887), Yuri Nagibin (1920), Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900), Mark Dvoretsky (1947), Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979), and Alexander Vampilov (1937).

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