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Grigory Shelikhov

1747 - 1795

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Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Григорий Иванович Шелихов in Russian) (1747, Rylsk, Belgorod Governorate – July 20, 1795 (July 31, 1795 New Style)) was a Russian seafarer, merchant, and fur trader who established a permanent settlement in Alaska. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Shelikhov has received more than 77,154 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Grigory Shelikhov is the 269th most popular explorer (down from 268th in 2019), the 1,110th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,094th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 77k

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  • 52.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 269 out of 498. Before him are Anthony Jenkinson, Willem de Vlamingh, Isidore of Charax, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Ippolito Rosellini, and Paweł Strzelecki. After him are Juan Pizarro, Vladimir Atlasov, Humphrey Gilbert, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Georg August Wallin, and Karl Weyprecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 17. Before him are Leopold Koželuch, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Józef Wybicki, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and John Paul Jones. After him are Timothy Dexter, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, Franz von Paula Schrank, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, and Jean-François Rewbell. Among people deceased in 1795, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 25. Before him are Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Michel Corrette, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, and Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Henry Clinton, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Maruyama Ōkyo, Eugenio Espejo, and Ivan Betskoy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 1,110 out of 3,761. Before him are Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845), Rudolf Barshai (1924), Vladimir Kappel (1883), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Gamzat-bek (1789), and Alexei Starobinsky (1948). After him are Oleg Kalugin (1934), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Carl Jaenisch (1813), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 12. Before him are Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), and Yerofey Khabarov (1603). After him are Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Dmitry Laptev (1701), and Irina Solovyova (1937).

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