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Georgy Sedov

1877 - 1914

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Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov (Russian: Гео́ргий Я́ковлевич Седо́в; 5 May [O.S. 23 April] 1877 – 5 March [O.S. 20 February] 1914) was a Russian Arctic explorer. Sedov was born in the village of Krivaya Kosa of Taganrog district (now Novoazovskyi Raion, Donetsk Oblast) to a fisherman's family. In 1898, he finished navigation courses in Rostov-on-Don and acquired the rank of long voyage navigator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgy Sedov has received more than 62,556 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Georgy Sedov is the 339th most popular explorer (down from 317th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 491st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Georgy Sedov ranks 339 out of 405Before him are Frederick William Beechey, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Philip Carteret, Khariton Laptev, and Oscar Dickson. After him are Benjamin Morrell, John McDouall Stuart, Pyotr Chikhachyov, John Wesley Powell, Edward Wilson, and Juan de Fuca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Georgy Sedov ranks 114Before him are Noël Bas, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Joanni Perronet, Shefqet Vërlaci, Bolesław Leśmian, and Slava Raškaj. After him are René Navarre, Maurice Farman, Liao Zhongkai, Aleksey Remizov, Camillo Caccia Dominioni, and Frederick Twort. Among people deceased in 1914, Georgy Sedov ranks 98Before him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Christopher Cradock, Amélie Lundahl, John Murray, Joshua Chamberlain, and Jean Bouin. After him are Richard Heuberger, Tor Aulin, Anselmo Lorenzo, Géza Fejérváry, Theodore Gill, and Georg von Kopp.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georgy Sedov ranks 584 out of 1,083Before him are Alexandre Michon (1858), Vera Inber (1890), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Wojciech Pszoniak (1942), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), and Alfred Eisenbeisser (1908). After him are Yuriy Boyko (1958), Jacek Kuroń (1934), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Roman Vlad (1919), Alexander Tairov (1885), and Yuri Shaporin (1887).

Among EXPLORERS In Ukraine

Among explorers born in Ukraine, Georgy Sedov ranks 3Before him are Stepan Makarov (1848) and Yuri Lisyansky (1773).