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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 44,695 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Khariton Laptev is the 363rd most popular explorer (down from 336th in 2019), the 1,590th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,454th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 45k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Khariton Laptev has had the most page views in the with 39,831 views, followed by English (4,472), and Chinese (1,207). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (97.47%), Catalan (88.03%), and Slovenian (72.34%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Khariton Laptev ranks 363 out of 498. Before him are Samuel Baker, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Georgy Sedov, Stepan Krasheninnikov, George Bass, and György Almásy. After him are Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Juan de Fuca, Fyodor Konyukhov, George Kennan, Lauge Koch, and Ivan Moskvitin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Khariton Laptev ranks 32. Before him are Michel Blavet, Semyon Chelyuskin, Stanisław Konarski, Pietro Bracci, Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. After him are Nathaniel Bliss, Abdul Aziz Hotak, James Thomson, Mary Delany, and Anthony de la Roché. Among people deceased in 1763, Khariton Laptev ranks 20. Before him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Olof von Dalin, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Suleiman II of Persia, Marco Foscarini, and Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. After him are Mary Toft, Fyodor Volkov, Joseph François Dupleix, and John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Khariton Laptev ranks 1,590 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoly Kvashnin (1946), Viatcheslav Ekimov (1966), Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868), Galimzyan Khusainov (1937), and Mikhail Matyushin (1861). After him are Daniil Granin (1919), Yunus-bek Yevkurov (1963), Reinhard Bonnke (1940), Yury Trifonov (1925), Feodor Gladkov (1883), and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Khariton Laptev ranks 20. Before him are Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Irina Solovyova (1937), and Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711). After him are Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), Pyotr Anjou (1796), Karl Maximovich (1827), Yakov Sannikov (1780), and Boris Vilkitsky (1885).

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