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Gombojab Tsybikov

1873 - 1930

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Gombojab Tsybikov (Russian: Гомбожаб Цэбекович Цыбиков Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov; Buryat: Цэбэгэй Гомбожаб, Mongolian: Цэвэгийн Гомбожав, alternatively romanized as Gombozhab and Tsybikoff; 20 April 1873 – 20 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of Tibet from 1899 to 1902. Tsybikov specialized in ethnography, Buddhist Studies, and after 1917 was an important educator and statesman in Siberia and Mongolia. Tsybikov is mostly credited for being the first photographer of Tibet, including Lhasa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gombojab Tsybikov has received more than 26,049 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gombojab Tsybikov is the 447th most popular explorer (down from 407th in 2019), the 2,129th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,861st in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 45.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 447 out of 498. Before him are Karl Mauch, Louis Hennepin, Artur Chilingarov, Matthew Henson, Ernest Henry Wilson, and Frank Wild. After him are Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Moresby, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, Robert O'Hara Burke, and Edgar Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 174. Before him are Dimitri Arakishvili, Robert Wrenn, Dimitrios Maximos, Frank Wild, Juliette Atkinson, and Michel Giacobini. After him are Jānis Endzelīns, Henri Helle, Karl Jatho, George Orton, Walter de la Mare, and Lucien Mérignac. Among people deceased in 1930, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 116. Before him are Gabriel Miró, Jens Christian Christensen, Eduard David, Paul Raud, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, and Ernest Henry Wilson. After him are Eligio Ayala, Edward Angle, Varlam Avanesov, Sigurd Ibsen, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, and Maria Polydouri.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 2,129 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Shcherba (1880), Nikolay Umov (1846), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), and Boris Kuznetsov (1928). After him are Rufina Gasheva (1921), Klara Guseva (1937), Matvey Gusev (1826), Manfred Schaefer (1943), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), and German Sveshnikov (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 31. Before him are Yakov Sannikov (1780), Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), Valerian Albanov (1881), Mikhail Somov (1908), and Artur Chilingarov (1939). After him are Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860), Vassili Poyarkov (null), and Georgy Ushakov (1901).

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