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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 70,175 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Grigory Shelikhov is the 269th most popular explorer (up from 10,324th in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,062nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 269 out of 405. Before him are William Clark, Nikolai Spathari, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Aleksei Chirikov, Richard Chancellor, and Juan Fernández. After him are Helge Ingstad, Dmitry Laptev, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Ivan Papanin, Francis Crozier, and Semyon Chelyuskin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 17. Before him are Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, John Paul Jones, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Józef Wybicki, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, and George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Franz von Paula Schrank, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Eugenio Espejo, Benjamin Vulliamy, György Bessenyei, and Iolo Morganwg. Among people deceased in 1795, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 24. Before him are James Boswell, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Michel Corrette, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini. After him are Maruyama Ōkyo, Henry Clinton, Giovanni Arduino, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Eugenio Espejo, and Johan Henric Kellgren.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 1,096 out of 3,262. Before him are Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Konstantin Thon (1794), Innocent of Alaska (1797), Sergey Lebedev (1902), Yulian Semyonov (1931), and Alexey Venetsianov (1780). After him are Vasily Gordov (1896), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Vladimir Lisin (1956), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), and Maksim Purkayev (1894).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Grigory Shelikhov ranks 13. Before him are Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703). After him are Dmitry Laptev (1701), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Irina Solovyova (1937), Karl Maximovich (1827), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), and Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711).

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