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Khariton Laptev

1700 - 1763

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Khariton Prokofievich Laptev (Russian: Харитон Прокофьевич Лаптев) (1700–1763) was a Russian naval officer and Arctic explorer. Khariton Laptev was born in a gentry family in the village of Pokarevo near Velikiye Luki (in the southern part of today's Pskov Oblast), just a year before his cousin Dmitry Laptev was born in the nearby village of Bolotovo. Khariton Laptev started his career in the Russian Navy as a cadet in 1718. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khariton Laptev has received more than 45,023 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Khariton Laptev is the 337th most popular explorer (down from 326th in 2019), the 1,458th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,340th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 48.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Khariton Laptev ranks 337 out of 405. Before him are Pascual de Andagoya, William Smith, Frederick William Beechey, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Édouard-Alfred Martel, and Philip Carteret. After him are Oscar Dickson, Georgy Sedov, Benjamin Morrell, John McDouall Stuart, Pyotr Chikhachyov, and John Wesley Powell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Khariton Laptev ranks 31. Before him are Semyon Chelyuskin, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sabah I bin Jaber, Stanisław Konarski, Nathaniel Bliss, and Picander. After him are Abdul Aziz Hotak, James Thomson, and Anthony de la Roché. Among people deceased in 1763, Khariton Laptev ranks 21. Before him are Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Joseph François Dupleix, Suleiman II of Persia, Mary Toft, Olof von Dalin, and Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. After him are Gabriela Silang and Fyodor Volkov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Khariton Laptev ranks 1,458 out of 3,262. Before him are Yury Trifonov (1925), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), Aleksei Evert (1857), Alexander Serafimovich (1863), Edwin Linkomies (1894), and Sergei Grinkov (1967). After him are Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Vladimir Krutov (1960), Alexander Gorbatov (1891), and Igor Bondarevsky (1913).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Khariton Laptev ranks 20. Before him are Dmitry Laptev (1701), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Irina Solovyova (1937), Karl Maximovich (1827), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), and Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711). After him are Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Pyotr Anjou (1796), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), and Boris Vilkitsky (1885).

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