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Ivan Moskvitin

1600 - 1601

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Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin (Russian: Иван Юрьевич Москвитин) (? – after 1647) was a Russian explorer, presumably a native of Moscow, who led a Russian reconnaissance party to the Sea of Okhotsk, becoming the first Russian to reach the Pacific Ocean. Moskvitin is first attested in 1626 as residing among the Cossacks in Tomsk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Moskvitin has received more than 42,263 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ivan Moskvitin is the 369th most popular explorer (down from 348th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 42k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ivan Moskvitin ranks 369 out of 498. Before him are Khariton Laptev, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Juan de Fuca, Fyodor Konyukhov, George Kennan, and Lauge Koch. After him are Juan de Oñate, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Theodor von Heuglin, Pyotr Chikhachyov, Matvei Gedenshtrom, and Johannes Rebmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Ivan Moskvitin ranks 23. Before him are Matthias Stom, Jacques Blanchard, Lourenço Marques, Ivan Bolotnikov, Pyotr Beketov, and Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. After him are Pieter de Grebber, and Lorenzo Ruiz. Among people deceased in 1601, Ivan Moskvitin ranks 10. Before him are Kuchum, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Henriette of Cleves, Starina Novak, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg. After him are John Shakespeare, and Thomas Nashe.

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