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Mikhail Somov

1908 - 1973

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Сомов; 7 April [O.S. 25 March] 1908, in Moscow – 30 December 1973, in Leningrad) was a Soviet oceanologist, polar explorer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1954). Somov graduated from the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute in 1937. In 1939, he was appointed senior researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Somov has received more than 48,693 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mikhail Somov is the 436th most popular explorer (down from 409th in 2019), the 2,051st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,883rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Mikhail Somov ranks 436 out of 498. Before him are George Back, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Robert McClure, Dirk Hartog, Henry Kellett, and Tim Severin. After him are Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Aeneas Mackintosh, John Gardner Wilkinson, Herbert Ponting, Karl Mauch, and Louis Hennepin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mikhail Somov ranks 330. Before him are Birago Diop, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Tauno Palo, Corneliu Robe, José Antonio Remón Cantera, and Olivia Manning. After him are Félix Welkenhuysen, Numa Andoire, Sigmund Haringer, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Merna Kennedy, and Jim Brown. Among people deceased in 1973, Mikhail Somov ranks 225. Before him are Grigore Moisil, Dudley Senanayake, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Jane Bowles, Oliver Macdonald, and Roland Dorgelès. After him are Arthur Freed, Memphis Minnie, Ivan Petrovsky, Ōten Shimokawa, Brigitte Reimann, and Åke Borg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Somov ranks 2,051 out of 3,761. Before him are Zhanna Yorkina (1939), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Dmitry Nazarov (1957), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), and Fyodor Volkov (1729). After him are Yuri Nagibin (1920), Gadzhi Gadzhiyev (1945), Viktor Kapitonov (1933), Vladimir Gostyukhin (1946), Ivan Bortnik (1939), and Pentti Saarikoski (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Mikhail Somov ranks 29. Before him are Pyotr Anjou (1796), Karl Maximovich (1827), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), and Valerian Albanov (1881). After him are Artur Chilingarov (1939), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860), Vassili Poyarkov (null), and Georgy Ushakov (1901).

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