The Most Famous
MOUNTAINEERS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Mountaineers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Mountaineers, 2 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 12th most number of Mountaineers behind Poland, and Spain.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Mountaineers of all time. This list of famous Russian Mountaineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Anatoli Boukreev (1958 - 1997)
With an HPI of 54.32, Anatoli Boukreev is the most famous Russian Mountaineer. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Soviet and Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8,000 m. Boukreev had a reputation as an elite mountaineer in international climbing circles for summiting K2 in 1993 and Mount Everest via the North Ridge route in 1995, and for his solo speed ascents of some of the world's highest mountains. He became even more widely known for saving the lives of climbers during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. In 1997, Boukreev was killed in an avalanche during a winter ascent of Annapurna in Nepal. Boukreev's companion, Linda Wylie, edited his memoirs and published them in 2002 under the title, Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer.
2. Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907 - 1948)
With an HPI of 49.22, Yevgeniy Abalakov is the 2nd most famous Russian Mountaineer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Абалаков; 17 February [O.S. 4 February] 1907 – 23 March 1948) was a Soviet mountaineer and sculptor. Abalakov was born in Yeniseysk. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union – Stalin Peak (later renamed Communism Peak and eventually Ismoil Somoni Peak, its current name) (7,495 m) on 3 September 1933 as a member of the 26th detachment of the Tajik-Pamir Sovnarkom expedition. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War Abalakov went to the front. Abalakov died on 23 March, 1948 in Moscow, in obscure circumstances, while preparing for the ascent to the Victory Peak. His brother, Vitaly Abalakov, was also a famous mountaineer. Abalakov was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
3. Denis Urubko (b. 1973)
With an HPI of 48.10, Denis Urubko is the 3rd most famous Russian Mountaineer. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Denis Urubko (Russian: Дени́с Ви́кторович Уру́бко; 29 July 1973) is a Russian-Polish climber. In 2009, as a citizen of Kazakhstan he became the 15th person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders and the 8th person to achieve the feat without supplemental oxygen. He had Soviet citizenship, but after the dissolution of the Soviet Union he became a citizen of Kazakhstan, but renounced the citizenship in 2012. In 2013, he received Russian citizenship and on 12 February 2015 he received Polish citizenship.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Russian mountaineers born between 1907 and 1973. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Russian mountaineers include Denis Urubko. The most famous deceased Russian mountaineers include Anatoli Boukreev, and Yevgeniy Abalakov. As of April 2024, 1 new Russian mountaineers have been added to Pantheon including Yevgeniy Abalakov.
