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Afanasy Nikitin

1500 - 1475

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Afanasy Nikitin (Russian: Афанасий Никитин; died 1475) was a Russian merchant from Tver and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de' Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Afanasy Nikitin has received more than 208,859 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Afanasy Nikitin is the 127th most popular explorer (down from 118th in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 478th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 59.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 127 out of 498. Before him are Alvise Cadamosto, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Jean Chardin, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Salomon August Andrée. After him are Isabella Bird, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Adam Olearius, Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, and Juan de Grijalva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 17. Before him are John of Ávila, Al-Mutawakkil III, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, Sinan Pasha, and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. After him are Reginald Pole, Francisco Serrão, Paris Bordone, Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada, Margarita Luti, and Gaspar de Lemos. Among people deceased in 1475, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 7. Before him are Paolo Uccello, Dieric Bouts, Petrus Christus, Radu cel Frumos, Bartolomeo Colleoni, and Joan of Portugal. After him are Theodorus Gaza, Simon of Trent, Albert van Ouwater, Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Sin Sukju, and Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 493 out of 3,761. Before him are Valentin Pavlov (1937), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Vera Zasulich (1849), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), and Viktor Suvorov (1947). After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), and Oleg Protopopov (1932).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 4. Before him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), and Semyon Dezhnev (1605). After him are Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Grigory Shelikhov (1747).

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