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Afanasy Nikitin

1500 - 1475

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Afanasy Nikitin (Russian: Афана́сий Ники́тин; died 1472) 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 178,933 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Afanasy Nikitin is the 118th most popular explorer (up from 125th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Russia (down from 433rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

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  • 58.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 118 out of 405. Before him are Semyon Dezhnev, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Thomas Cavendish, George Vancouver, and Andrés de Urdaneta. After him are Alvise Cadamosto, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, João da Nova, Isabella Bird, Salomon August Andrée, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 16. Before him are Hernando de Soto, Al-Mutawakkil III, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, John of Ávila, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, and Reginald Pole. After him are Paris Bordone, Sinan Pasha, Elizabeth Blount, Francisco Serrão, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada. Among people deceased in 1475, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 7. Before him are Paolo Uccello, Petrus Christus, Dieric Bouts, Radu cel Frumos, Bartolomeo Colleoni, and Joan of Portugal. After him are Simon of Trent, Albert van Ouwater, Theodorus Gaza, Sin Sukju, Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Afanasy Nikitin ranks 480 out of 3,262. Before him are Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Alexander Grin (1880), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Daniil Kharms (1905), Werner Ostendorff (1903), and Konstantin Simonov (1915). After him are Olga Knipper (1868), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Filipp Golikov (1900), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), and Pavel Milyukov (1859).

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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 Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703).

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