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Jan Czerski

1845 - 1892

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Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski, also Ivan Dementievich Chersky or Yan Dominikovich Chersky (Russian: Иван Дементьевич Черский, Ян Доминикович Черский; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1845 – 25 June [O.S. 7 July] 1892) was a Russian and Polish paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia. He was exiled to Transbaikalia for participating in the January Uprising of 1863. A self-taught scientist, he eventually received three gold medals from the Russian Geographical Society, and his name was given to a settlement, two mountain ranges, several peaks and other sites. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Czerski has received more than 33,056 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jan Czerski is the 236th most popular explorer (down from 213th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jan Czerski ranks 236 out of 498. Before him are Nicolas Baudin, Francisco Moreno, Jorge Álvares, Yerofey Khabarov, Ohthere of Hålogaland, and Wulfstan of Hedeby. After him are Pedro Cieza de León, Yuri Lisyansky, Pehr Osbeck, Eduard von Toll, Grigory Potanin, and Nikolaus Federmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Jan Czerski ranks 44. Before him are Harriet Backer, Eugène Grasset, Émile Baudot, Elihu Root, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Walter Crane. After him are Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, William, Prince of Wied, Jules Guesde, Àngel Guimerà, Friedrich Martens, and Antonio Maceo Grajales. Among people deceased in 1892, Jan Czerski ranks 42. Before him are Charles Lavigerie, Carlo Cafiero, Hermann Burmeister, Enrico Betti, Bernhard Windscheid, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. After him are Alexander Cartwright, Abdyl Frashëri, Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Anthon van Rappard, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, and Robert Ford.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Jan Czerski ranks 83 out of 368. Before him are Sergei Aleinikov (1961), Czesław Niemen (1939), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Napoleon Orda (1807), and Dawid Janowski (1868). After him are Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), and Symeon of Polotsk (1629).

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Among EXPLORERS In Belarus

Among explorers born in Belarus, Jan Czerski ranks 1. 

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