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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 160,273 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alexander Andreyevich Baranov is the 189th most popular explorer (down from 179th in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 689th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 160k

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  • 54.79

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 189 out of 405. Before him are Naddodd, Don Walsh, Francisco de Bobadilla, Jimmie Angel, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and Fernão do Pó. After him are Oscar Wisting, Henri Mouhot, George W. De Long, Nuno Tristão, Daniel Boone, and Hendrik Brouwer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 21. Before him are George XII of Georgia, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Izabela Czartoryska, and Antonio Rosetti. After him are François-André Vincent, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, William Curtis, and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle. Among people deceased in 1819, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 17. Before him are Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sophie Blanchard, Erik Acharius, and Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. After him are Bodawpaya, Abbé Faria, Alexander Tormasov, Johan David Åkerblad, Valentin Vodnik, and John Playfair.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ranks 763 out of 3,262. Before him are Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), Marfa Sobakina (1552), Vasily Polenov (1844), Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), and Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908). After him are Andrey Arshavin (1981), Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), and Boris Stürmer (1848).

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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), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), and Nikolai Rezanov (1764). After him are Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Dmitry Laptev (1701), and Semyon Chelyuskin (1700).

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