This survey took place between 19 and 24 February 2016 and was conducted throughout all of Russia in both urban and rural settings. The survey was carried out among 1600 people over the age of 18 in 137 localities of 48 of the country’s regions. The survey was conducted as a personal interview in respondents’ homes. The answer distribution is presented as percentages of the number of participants along with data from previous surveys. The statistical error of these studies does not exceed 3.4%.
WHICH PROMINENT RUSSIAN WRITERS CAN YOU NAME? (multiple answers)
| 1. Tolstoy, Lev | 45 |
| 2. Dostoevsky | 23 |
| 3. Chekhov | 18 |
| 4. Pushkin | 15 |
| 5. Gogol | 13 |
| 6. Sholokhov | 13 |
| 7. Bulgakov | 11 |
| 8. Turgenev | 9 |
| 9. Gorky | 7 |
| 10. Lermontov | 6 |
| 11. Solzhenitsyn | 5 |
| 12. Kuprin | 4 |
| 13. Bunin | 4 |
| 14. Nekrasov | 4 |
| 15. Darya Dontsova | 3 |
| 16. Akunin | 3 |
| 17. Griboyedov | 3 |
| 18. Ostrovsky, Aleksandr | 3 |
| 19. Nabokov | 2 |
| 20. Pikul’ | 2 |
| 21. Simonov | 2 |
| 22. Tolstoy, Aleksey | 2 |
| 23. Shukshin | 2 |
| 24. Saltykov-Shchedrin | 2 |
| 25. Astafyev | 2 |
| 26. Prishvin | 2 |
| 27. Leskov | 2 |
| 28. Fadeyev | 1 |
| 29. Paustovsky | 1 |
| 30. Karamzin | 1 |
| 31. Belyaev | 1 |
| 32. Zoshchenko | 1 |
| 33. Ilf and Petrov | 1 |
| 34. Rasputin | 1 |
| 35. Ostrovsky, Nikolai | 1 |
| 36. Ustinova | 1 |
| 37. Ivanov | 1 |
| 38. Kassil’ | 1 |
| 39. Marinina | 1 |
| 40. Pasternak | 1 |
| 41. Pelevin | 1 |
| 42. Bykov | 1 |
| 43. Goncharov | 1 |
| 44. Mikhalkov | 1 |
| 45. Platonov | 1 |
| 46. Aytmatov | 1 |
| 47. Mamin-Sibiryak | 1 |
| 48. Nosov | 1 |
| 49. Rybakov | 1 |
| 50. Chernyshevsky | 1 |
| 51. Vasilyev | 1 |
| 52. Dovlatov | 1 |
| 53. Yefremov | 1 |
| Granin, Strugatskie, Bianki, Dal, Makarenko, Tvardovsky, Bulychev, Gaydar, Zadornov, Zamyatin, Krylov, Polevoy, Proskurin, Topol, Bratya, Vaynery, Voynovich, Kaverin, Leonov, Radzinsky, Uspensky, Alekseyev, German, Gumilyov, Korolenko, Lukyanenko, Bazhov, Lomonosov, Nagibin, Pleshcheev, Ulitskaya, Chukovsky. |
<1 each |
| Other | 9 |
| None / It is difficult to say / no answer | 12 |
Translated by Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies).