Trending Linguists in Russia — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
494,528
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
78,283
views
views
2
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
35,914
views
views
3
Boris Akunin
Russian writer, translation, and historian
15,390
views
views
4
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
14,767
views
views
5
Denis Fonvizin
Russian writer (1745-1792)
13,065
views
views
6
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
12,515
views
views
7
Vladimir Dal
Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
11,600
views
views
8
Nikolay Karamzin
Russian writer, poet, critic
11,591
views
views
9
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
10,682
views
views
10
Gavrila Derzhavin
Russian poet (1743-1816)
10,218
views
views
11
Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769–1844)
10,149
views
views
12
Dmitry Likhachov
Russian philologist (1906–1999)
10,148
views
views
13
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
9,811
views
views
14
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
9,697
views
views
15
Dmitry Puchkov
Russian media personality
9,582
views
views
16
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
8,352
views
views
17
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
8,292
views
views
18
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
8,233
views
views
19
Vasily Zhukovsky
Russian poet (1783-1852)
7,419
views
views
20
Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
6,960
views
views
21
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
Russian general (1777–1861)
6,290
views
views
22
Konstantin Balmont
Russian poet (1867–1942)
6,273
views
views
23
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
5,093
views
views
24
Iryna Farion
Ukrainian linguist and politician (1964–2024)
5,081
views
views
25
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
4,900
views
views
26
Arseny Tarkovsky
Soviet poet and translator (1907–1989)
4,478
views
views
27
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
4,450
views
views
28
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
4,330
views
views
29
Vasily Tatishchev
Russian historian (1686-1750)
4,125
views
views
30
Boris Zakhoder
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter (1918–2000)
3,980
views
views
31
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
3,933
views
views
32
Natan Eidelman
Soviet-Russian historian, writer (1930—1989)
3,908
views
views
33
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
3,880
views
views
34
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
3,724
views
views
35
Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)
3,643
views
views
36
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
3,519
views
views
37
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
3,279
views
views
38
Natalia O'Shea
Russian singer-songwriter, musician and linguist
3,123
views
views
39
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,114
views
views
40
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
3,025
views
views
41
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
2,968
views
views
42
Leonid Volodarskiy
Russian translator (1950–2023)
2,889
views
views
43
Andrey Lebedev
2,888
views
views
44
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
2,882
views
views
45
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
2,779
views
views
46
Vladimir Propp
Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist (1895–1970)
2,723
views
views
47
Kasym Tynystanov
Kyrgyzstani poet
2,720
views
views
48
Pyotr Vyazemsky
leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry (1792–1878)
2,641
views
views
49
Sergey Ozhegov
Russian lexicographer (1900–1964)
2,552
views
views
50
Mikhail Kuzmin
Russian writer (1872-1936)
2,509
views
views
51
Vikenty Veresaev
Russian doctor and writer (1867–1945)
2,457
views
views
52
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
2,386
views
views
53
Alexander Afanasyev
Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
2,312
views
views
54
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
2,266
views
views
55
Sophia Parnok
Russian writer
2,204
views
views
56
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,198
views
views
57
Vladislav Ardzinba
President of Abkhazia (1945-2010)
2,161
views
views
58
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,115
views
views
59
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
1,952
views
views
60
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,835
views
views
61
Gleb Matveychuk
Russian actor
1,742
views
views
62
Antony Pogorelsky
Russian writer (1787–1836)
1,717
views
views
63
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
1,714
views
views
64
Sergey Uvarov
Russian noble who was a classical scholar and formulated the famous doctrine "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality" to united many ethnicities (1786-1855)
1,709
views
views
65
Veronika Tushnova
Russian writer and journalist (1911–1965)
1,706
views
views
66
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov
Russian Minister of Education, one of the founders of the Moscow University (1755)
1,689
views
views
67
Viktor Vinogradov
Soviet academic (1894-1969)
1,667
views
views
68
Mikhail Lozinsky
Russian writer (1886-1955)
1,647
views
views
69
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
1,644
views
views
70
Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)
1,630
views
views
71
Mahmud al-Kashgari
Turkic scholar and lexicographer
1,616
views
views
72
Yevgeny Polivanov
Soviet linguist and orientalist (1891–1938)
1,615
views
views
73
Andrey Zaliznyak
Russian linguist (1935-2017)
1,610
views
views
74
Philaret Drozdov
Russian bishop (1783-1867)
1,599
views
views
75
Dietmar Rosenthal
Russian linguist
1,580
views
views
76
Aleksey Shakhmatov
Russian philologist (1864–1920)
1,567
views
views
77
Dimitrie Cantemir
Prince of Moldavia
1,548
views
views
78
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
1,533
views
views
79
Maksim Bahdanovič
Belarusian writer (1891–1917)
1,525
views
views
80
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
1,473
views
views
81
Galina Dzhugashvili
Russian translator (1938-2007)
1,470
views
views
82
Vasily Trediakovsky
Russian poet, translator, philologist
1,434
views
views
83
Alexander Bezborodko
Grand Chancellor of Russia (1747-1799)
1,418
views
views
84
Vasili Bazhenov
Russian neoclassical architect (1737-1799)
1,414
views
views
85
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
1,414
views
views
86
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
1,337
views
views
87
Lev Shcherba
Russian and Soviet linguist (1880-1944)
1,317
views
views
88
Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy
Russian linguist (1923–1996)
1,314
views
views
89
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Russian writer and educator
1,292
views
views
90
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
1,275
views
views
91
Nikolai Marr
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
1,273
views
views
92
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
1,252
views
views
93
Mikhail Pogodin
Russian historian and journalist (1800–1875)
1,249
views
views
94
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
1,236
views
views
95
Max Vasmer
Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)
1,216
views
views
96
Ivan Yakovlev
Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer (1848–1930)
1,190
views
views
97
Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist (1912–1991)
1,178
views
views
98
Aleksandr Kondratov
Russian writer (1937–1993)
1,173
views
views
99
Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
Russian statesman, historian and art collector
1,151
views
views
100
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,141
views
views