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Yury Kazakov

1927 - 1982

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Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (Russian: Юрий Павлович Казаков; August 8, 1927 – November 29, 1982) was a Russian author of short stories, often compared to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin. Born in Moscow, he started out as a jazz musician, but turned to publishing his stories in 1952. He attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, graduating in 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yury Kazakov is the 6,038th most popular writer (down from 5,916th in 2019), the 2,316th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,284th in 2019) and the 270th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Yury Kazakov ranks 6,038 out of 7,302. Before him are Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Francis Marion Crawford, Ferreira de Castro, Ali Smith, Amy Tan, and Can Dündar. After him are Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nedim Gürsel, Nicholas Meyer, Farley Mowat, Lin Carter, and Aleksandr Volodin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Yury Kazakov ranks 426. Before him are Hugo Budinger, François Nourissier, James Broderick, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Leonid Shcherbakov, and Red Mitchell. After him are Jiří Pešek, Ambrus Nagy, Hugo Dollheiser, Beatrice Ohanessian, Peter Matthiessen, and Attila Dargay. Among people deceased in 1982, Yury Kazakov ranks 286. Before him are Archibald MacLeish, Humphrey Searle, Virginia Fox, Willi Multhaup, James Broderick, and Sue Carol. After him are Lamberto Dalla Costa, Cal Tjader, Salomon Bochner, Philip Hall, Sheikh Abdullah, and Otto von Porat.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yury Kazakov ranks 2,316 out of 3,761. Before him are Leonid Mikhelson (1955), Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966), Vasily Goncharov (1861), Leonid Shcherbakov (1927), Aleksandr Baluev (1958), and Vladimir Tendryakov (1923). After him are Nikolai Manoshin (1938), Dmitri Prigov (1940), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), Tetyana Dorovskikh (1961), and Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yury Kazakov ranks 270. Before him are Fedor Samokhin (1918), Aleksandr Chakovsky (1913), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), Qaysin Quli (1917), Alexander Afinogenov (1904), and Vladimir Tendryakov (1923). After him are Dmitri Prigov (1940), Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862), Ğäliäsğar Kamal (1879), Lev Rubinstein (1947), Irena Krzywicka (1899), and Pavel Antokolsky (1896).

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