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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 33,045 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Grigory Potanin is the 287th most popular explorer (down from 241st in 2019).

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Grigory Potanin ranks 287 out of 405Before him are Yuri Lisyansky, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Edward S. Curtis, Francisco Moreno, and Jens Munk. After him are Lourenço Marques, Peter Freuchen, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Alexander Gordon Laing, and Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Grigory Potanin ranks 49Before him are Theodore Thomas, Alexander Potebnja, Krišjānis Barons, Raphael Kalinowski, Matthías Jochumsson, and Felix Draeseke. After him are Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Henri Brisson, Franz Defregger, Adlai Stevenson I, Benjamin Briggs, and Kārlis Baumanis. Among people deceased in 1920, Grigory Potanin ranks 65Before him are Delfim Moreira, Richard Dehmel, Hector Hodler, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Olive Thomas, and Matthías Jochumsson. After him are Adolf Albin, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Hermann von Struve, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Pál Szinyei Merse, and Wilhelm Pfeffer.

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