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Boris Vilkitsky

1885 - 1961

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Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky (Russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Вильки́цкий) (22 March (3 April N.S.) 1885, Pulkovo – 6 March 1961) was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Vilkitsky has received more than 58,405 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Vilkitsky is the 404th most popular explorer (down from 386th in 2019), the 1,856th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,753rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Boris Vilkitsky ranks 404 out of 498Before him are Jacques Labillardière, Yakov Sannikov, Finn Ronne, Christopher Middleton, Edward Belcher, and Frederick Russell Burnham. After him are Gennady Nevelskoy, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Louis-Gustave Binger, François Levaillant, Theodor Kotschy, and Lars Christensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Boris Vilkitsky ranks 196Before him are István Somodi, Marcello Bertinetti, María Grever, Anita Rée, Carl Silfverstrand, and Tim Ahearne. After him are Per Thorén, Américo Castro, Enrico Porro, José Durand Laguna, Leonida Tonelli, and Lajos Tihanyi. Among people deceased in 1961, Boris Vilkitsky ranks 146Before him are Percy Grainger, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Alberto Chividini, Dun Karm Psaila, Antonio Urdinarán, and František Drtikol. After him are Guy de Luget, William Astbury, Romeo Neri, Alberto Galateo, Maud Wagner, and Victor d'Arcy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Vilkitsky ranks 1,856 out of 3,761Before him are Irina Arkhipova (1925), Nestor Kukolnik (1809), Arseny Golovko (1906), Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925), Valentin Afonin (1939), and Andrey Lavrov (1962). After him are Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Slava Polunin (1950), Mikhail Popkov (1964), Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Alfred Asikainen (1888), and Platon Oyunsky (1893).

Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Boris Vilkitsky ranks 26Before him are Khariton Laptev (1700), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), Pyotr Anjou (1796), Karl Maximovich (1827), and Yakov Sannikov (1780). After him are Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), Valerian Albanov (1881), Mikhail Somov (1908), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), and Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860).