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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 66,918 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Sedov is the 359th most popular explorer (down from 338th in 2019), the 661st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 581st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Georgy Sedov ranks 359 out of 498Before him are Florence Baker, Irina Solovyova, Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, Samuel Baker, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón. After him are Stepan Krasheninnikov, George Bass, György Almásy, Khariton Laptev, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Juan de Fuca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Georgy Sedov ranks 120Before him are Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Ugo Cerletti, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Noël Bas, Miltiadis Gouskos, and Shefqet Vërlaci. After him are Sidney Johnson, Frederick Twort, Filippos Karvelas, Ned Maddrell, Victor Willems, and Norman Brookes. Among people deceased in 1914, Georgy Sedov ranks 109Before him are Carl Chun, Benedict Menni, Paul Mauser, Antun Gustav Matoš, Paul Déroulède, and Géza Fejérváry. After him are Karolina Kózka, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Kitty Lange Kielland, Ernst Stadler, Eugène Balme, and Eugenio Montero Ríos.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georgy Sedov ranks 661 out of 1,365Before him are Lev Kerbel (1917), Valerian Pidmohylny (1901), David Cherkassky (1931), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Mykhailo Boychuk (1882), and Jerzy Różycki (1909). After him are Andrei Kanchelskis (1969), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Leopold Staff (1878), Viorica Ursuleac (1894), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), and Maryna Poroshenko (1962).

Among EXPLORERS In Ukraine

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