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Dmitry Laptev

1701 - 1771

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Dmitry Yakovlevich Laptev (Russian: Дмитрий Яковлевич Лаптев) (1701 – January [O.S. 10 January] 1771) was a Russian Arctic explorer and Vice Admiral (1762). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Laptev has received more than 53,286 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Laptev is the 320th most popular explorer (down from 270th in 2019), the 1,339th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,115th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 53k

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  • 51.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Dmitry Laptev ranks 320 out of 498. Before him are Ivan Papanin, Pyotr Kozlov, Roy Chapman Andrews, Nathaniel Palmer, Hermann Wissmann, and Helge Ingstad. After him are Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Tafur, William Clark, Bento de Góis, Martim Afonso de Sousa, and Alexander Dalrymple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1701, Dmitry Laptev ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Sharaku, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Johan Agrell, and Nicolai Eigtved. After him are Wu Jingzi, Johann Jakob Breitinger, and Thomas Hudson. Among people deceased in 1771, Dmitry Laptev ranks 16. Before him are John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Tobias Smollett, František Brixi, Thomas Gray, and Johann Gottlieb Graun. After him are William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, Jan Klemens Branicki, and Sydney Parkinson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Laptev ranks 1,339 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Milyutin (1816), Albert Shesternyov (1941), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), and Aleksey Pisemsky (1821). After him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Nur Devlet (null), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Boris Yegorov (1937), Lev Artsimovich (1909), and Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Dmitry Laptev ranks 17. Before him are Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), and Pyotr Kozlov (1862). After him are Irina Solovyova (1937), Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Khariton Laptev (1700), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), and Pyotr Anjou (1796).

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