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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 78,971 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Aleksei Chirikov is the 266th most popular explorer (down from 244th in 2019), the 1,070th most popular biography from Russia (down from 932nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 266 out of 405. Before him are Ippolito Rosellini, Ludwig Leichhardt, Willem de Vlamingh, William Clark, Nikolai Spathari, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. After him are Richard Chancellor, Juan Fernández, Grigory Shelikhov, Helge Ingstad, Dmitry Laptev, and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 1,070 out of 3,262. Before him are Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Valentin Varennikov (1923), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Erich von Drygalski (1865), and Alexander Kutepov (1882). After him are Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), and Ivan Tyulenev (1892).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 12. Before him are Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), and Yerofey Khabarov (1603). After him are Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Irina Solovyova (1937), Karl Maximovich (1827), and Pyotr Kozlov (1862).

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