Trending Linguists in Russia — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
549,454
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
85,215
views
views
2
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
37,652
views
views
3
Tatyana Chernigovskaya
Soviet and Russian psychologist
16,928
views
views
4
Boris Akunin
Russian writer, translation, and historian
16,094
views
views
5
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
16,083
views
views
6
Denis Fonvizin
Russian writer (1745-1792)
13,309
views
views
7
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
12,865
views
views
8
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
12,833
views
views
9
Nikolay Karamzin
Russian writer, poet, critic
12,451
views
views
10
Vladimir Dal
Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
12,256
views
views
11
Dmitry Likhachov
Russian philologist (1906–1999)
10,785
views
views
12
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
10,735
views
views
13
Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769–1844)
10,591
views
views
14
Dmitry Puchkov
Russian media personality
10,581
views
views
15
Gavrila Derzhavin
Russian poet (1743-1816)
10,549
views
views
16
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
10,508
views
views
17
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
8,770
views
views
18
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
8,601
views
views
19
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
8,589
views
views
20
Vasily Zhukovsky
Russian poet (1783-1852)
7,930
views
views
21
Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
7,664
views
views
22
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
Russian general (1777–1861)
6,795
views
views
23
Konstantin Balmont
Russian poet (1867–1942)
6,716
views
views
24
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
5,543
views
views
25
Iryna Farion
Ukrainian linguist and politician (1964–2024)
5,409
views
views
26
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
5,357
views
views
27
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
5,258
views
views
28
Andrey Lebedev
5,158
views
views
29
Arseny Tarkovsky
Soviet poet and translator (1907–1989)
5,077
views
views
30
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
4,736
views
views
31
Vasily Tatishchev
Russian historian (1686-1750)
4,416
views
views
32
Boris Zakhoder
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter (1918–2000)
4,203
views
views
33
Natan Eidelman
Soviet-Russian historian, writer (1930—1989)
4,140
views
views
34
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
4,088
views
views
35
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
4,077
views
views
36
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
4,034
views
views
37
Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)
4,021
views
views
38
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
3,882
views
views
39
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
3,629
views
views
40
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,440
views
views
41
Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea
Russian singer-songwriter, musician and linguist
3,363
views
views
42
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
3,283
views
views
43
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
3,124
views
views
44
Leonid Volodarskiy
Russian translator (1950–2023)
3,121
views
views
45
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
3,101
views
views
46
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
3,009
views
views
47
Vladimir Propp
Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist (1895–1970)
2,916
views
views
48
Pyotr Vyazemsky
leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry (1792–1878)
2,825
views
views
49
Kasym Tynystanov
Kyrgyzstani poet
2,818
views
views
50
Mikhail Kuzmin
Russian writer (1872-1936)
2,723
views
views
51
Vikenty Veresaev
Russian doctor and writer (1867–1945)
2,661
views
views
52
Sergey Ozhegov
Russian lexicographer (1900–1964)
2,653
views
views
53
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
2,481
views
views
54
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
2,445
views
views
55
Alexander Afanasyev
Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
2,442
views
views
56
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,408
views
views
57
Sophia Parnok
Russian writer
2,370
views
views
58
Vladislav Ardzinba
President of Abkhazia (1945-2010)
2,295
views
views
59
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,280
views
views
60
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
1,998
views
views
61
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov
Russian Minister of Education, one of the founders of the Moscow University (1755)
1,993
views
views
62
Veronika Tushnova
Russian writer and journalist (1911–1965)
1,983
views
views
63
Gleb Matveychuk
Russian actor
1,953
views
views
64
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,941
views
views
65
Mikhail Lozinsky
Russian writer (1886-1955)
1,910
views
views
66
Sergey Uvarov
Russian noble who was a classical scholar and formulated the famous doctrine "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality" to united many ethnicities (1786-1855)
1,863
views
views
67
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
1,856
views
views
68
Dietmar Rosenthal
Russian linguist (1900–1994)
1,816
views
views
69
Antony Pogorelsky
Russian writer (1787–1836)
1,807
views
views
70
Viktor Vinogradov
Soviet academic (1894-1969)
1,762
views
views
71
Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)
1,761
views
views
72
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
1,738
views
views
73
Philaret Drozdov
Russian bishop (1783-1867)
1,737
views
views
74
Andrey Zaliznyak
Russian linguist (1935-2017)
1,727
views
views
75
Yevgeny Polivanov
Soviet linguist and orientalist (1891–1938)
1,718
views
views
76
Mahmud al-Kashgari
Turkic scholar and lexicographer
1,713
views
views
77
Maksim Bahdanovič
Belarusian writer (1891–1917)
1,697
views
views
78
Dimitrie Cantemir
Prince of Moldavia
1,665
views
views
79
Aleksey Shakhmatov
Russian philologist (1864–1920)
1,664
views
views
80
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
1,607
views
views
81
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
1,607
views
views
82
Galina Dzhugashvili
Russian translator (1938-2007)
1,570
views
views
83
Vasili Bazhenov
Russian neoclassical architect (1737-1799)
1,569
views
views
84
Alexander Bezborodko
Grand Chancellor of Russia (1747-1799)
1,551
views
views
85
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
1,534
views
views
86
Vasily Trediakovsky
Russian poet, translator, philologist
1,518
views
views
87
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Russian writer and educator
1,429
views
views
88
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
1,429
views
views
89
Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy
Russian linguist (1923–1996)
1,412
views
views
90
Nikolai Marr
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
1,376
views
views
91
Dmitriy Petrov
Russian translator, interpreter and television presenter
1,372
views
views
92
Lev Shcherba
Russian and Soviet linguist (1880-1944)
1,363
views
views
93
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
1,360
views
views
94
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
1,337
views
views
95
Max Vasmer
Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)
1,331
views
views
96
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
1,328
views
views
97
Mikhail Pogodin
Russian historian and journalist (1800–1875)
1,317
views
views
98
Sadriddin Ayni
Tajik writer (1878-1954)
1,290
views
views
99
Ivan Yakovlev
Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer (1848–1930)
1,289
views
views
100
Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist (1912–1991)
1,277
views
views