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Nikolay Przhevalsky

1839 - 1888

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Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky; April 12 [O.S. March 31] 1839 – November 1 [O.S. October 20] 1888) was a Russian geographer of Polish descent (he was born in a Polish noble family), and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the holy city of Lhasa in Tibet, he traveled through regions then unknown to the West, such as northern Tibet (modern Tibet Autonomous Region), Amdo (now Qinghai) and Dzungaria (now northern Xinjiang). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Przhevalsky has received more than 183,731 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Nikolay Przhevalsky is the 62nd most popular explorer (up from 70th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Russia (up from 273rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Explorer.

Nikolay Przhevalsky was a Russian explorer who traveled to Mongolia and Tibet in the late 1800s. He is most famous for discovering the Tibetan wild ass, which he named the "Tibetan wild ass" or "Equus hemionus onager."

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 62 out of 405. Before him are Diogo Cão, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Michael Rockefeller, John Smith, and James Clark Ross. After him are John Davis, Antonio Pigafetta, William Dampier, Lope de Aguirre, Hernando de Soto, and Diego Columbus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 12. Before him are Charles Sanders Peirce, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Josephine Cochrane. After him are Machado de Assis, Emil Škoda, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Nikolay Bobrikov, Yoshitoshi, and Théodule-Armand Ribot. Among people deceased in 1888, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 9. Before him are Frederick III, German Emperor, Rudolf Clausius, Carl Zeiss, John Stith Pemberton, Louisa May Alcott, and Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. After him are Charles-Valentin Alkan, François Achille Bazaine, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Paul Langerhans, Ascanio Sobrero, and Theodor Storm.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 266 out of 3,262. Before him are Ivan II of Moscow (1326), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), and Michel Fokine (1880). After him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703).

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