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Grigory Potanin

1835 - 1920

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Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (Russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Potanin has received more than 36,725 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Grigory Potanin is the 241st most popular explorer (up from 286th in 2019).

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Grigory Potanin ranks 241 out of 498. Before him are Wulfstan of Hedeby, Jan Czerski, Pedro Cieza de León, Yuri Lisyansky, Pehr Osbeck, and Eduard von Toll. After him are Nikolaus Federmann, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Lady Hester Stanhope, Rodrigo de Jerez, and Edward Bransfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Grigory Potanin ranks 41. Before him are Alexandrine Tinné, Tomás Estrada Palma, Christian Otto Mohr, Eugenio Beltrami, Raffi, and John Hughlings Jackson. After him are Émile Combes, Matthías Jochumsson, Lunalilo, Raphael Kalinowski, Alexander Potebnja, and Franz Defregger. Among people deceased in 1920, Grigory Potanin ranks 53. Before him are Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Levi P. Morton, Maria Bochkareva, Nikolai Korotkov, John Wesley Hyatt, and Afonso, Duke of Porto. After him are Ryu Gwansun, Matthías Jochumsson, Kliment Timiryazev, Maciej Sulkiewicz, Odoardo Beccari, and Moritz Cantor.

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