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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 24,019 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gombojab Tsybikov is the 408th most popular explorer (down from 358th in 2019), the 1,865th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,552nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 408 out of 405Before him are John Moresby, Herbert Ponting, Tryggve Gran, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, George Back, and Lars Christensen. After him are Boyd Alexander, Mikhail Somov, Lachlan Macquarie, Georgy Ushakov, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Isaac Israel Hayes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 153Before him are Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Michel Giacobini, Carlos Mendieta, Julieta Lanteri, Georges Theunis, and Eduardo Schaerer. After him are Boyd Alexander, Karl Jatho, Juan Corzo, Maurice Verdonck, George Orton, and Charles Schlee. Among people deceased in 1930, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 95Before him are Jens Christian Christensen, John Russell, Launceston Elliot, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Leonard Meredith, and Gabriel Miró. After him are Šatrijos Ragana, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Eduard David, Alfred John Keene, Florian Cajori, and Maria Polydouri.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 1,865 out of 3,262Before him are Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Olga Morozova (1949), Avdotia Istomina (1799), Svetlana Khorkina (1979), and Denis Urubko (1973). After him are Dmitry Rogozin (1963), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), and Gregory Ratoff (1897).

Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Gombojab Tsybikov ranks 27Before him are Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Pyotr Anjou (1796), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), and Boris Vilkitsky (1885). After him are Mikhail Somov (1908), Georgy Ushakov (1901), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Aleksandra Potanina (1843), and Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860).