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Aleksei Chirikov

1703 - 1748

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Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (Russian: Алексе́й Ильи́ч Чи́риков; 1703 – November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksei Chirikov has received more than 84,975 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksei Chirikov is the 287th most popular explorer (down from 265th in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,068th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 287 out of 498. Before him are Adolf Lüderitz, Charles Wilkes, Ada Blackjack, Wilfred Thesiger, Otto Finsch, and Freya Stark. After him are Henricus Martellus Germanus, Douglas Mawson, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Eusebio Kino, Edward Wilson, and Robert Hermann Schomburgk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 12. Before him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, and Johann Gottlieb Graun. After him are Vasily Trediakovsky, Jack Broughton, Mary Toft, Jean-François Séguier, and Kashibai. Among people deceased in 1748, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 13. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, Muhammad Shah, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, and William Kent. After him are Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Isaac Watts, James Thomson, Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and William Adam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 1,153 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), Iona Nikitchenko (1895), Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926), Lev Perovski (1792), and Konstantin Thon (1794). After him are Vitaly Solomin (1941), Paul Gorguloff (1895), Kir Bulychev (1934), Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), Zinaida Greceanîi (1956), and Vasily Rozanov (1856).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 14. Before him are Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661). After him are Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Irina Solovyova (1937), Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), and Khariton Laptev (1700).

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