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Alexander Andreyevich Baranov

1746 - 1819

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Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (Russian: Александр Андреевич Баранов; 3 February [O.S. 14 February] 1747 – 16 April [O.S. 28 April] 1819), sometimes spelled Aleksandr or Alexandr and Baranof, was a Russian trader and merchant, who worked for some time in Siberia. He was recruited by the Shelikhov-Golikov Company for trading in Russian America, beginning in 1790 with a five-year contract as manager of the outpost. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov has received more than 172,018 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander Andreyevich Baranov is the 193rd most popular explorer (down from 188th in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from Russia (down from 761st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 55.75

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 193 out of 498. Before him are Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Aleksandra Potanina, Jimmie Angel, Alexander Mackenzie, and Bartolomeu Perestrello. After him are Olivier van Noort, Matthew Flinders, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Wilhelm Filchner, James Weddell, and Samuel Wallis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 22. Before him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, François-André Vincent, and Izabela Czartoryska. After him are Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Antonio Rosetti, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Bernardo de Gálvez, and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle. Among people deceased in 1819, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 16. Before him are August von Kotzebue, Erik Acharius, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, and Sophie Blanchard. After him are Bodawpaya, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Abbé Faria, Alexander Tormasov, Johann Peter Beaulieu, and Johan David Åkerblad.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 774 out of 3,761. Before him are Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Tamanian (1878), Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850), Yegor Gaidar (1956), and Serge Koussevitzky (1874). After him are Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Mintimer Shaimiev (1937), Boris Shakhlin (1932), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), and Sergei Novikov (1938).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 9. Before him are Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), and Aleksandra Potanina (1843). After him are Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), and Semyon Chelyuskin (1700).

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