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Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky

1827 - 1914

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Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov or Semenov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Семёнов; 2 January (New style: 14 January), 1827 – 26 February (New style: 11 March), 1914) was a Russian geographer and statistician who managed the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years. He gained international fame for his pioneering exploration of the Tian Shan mountains. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky has received more than 50,183 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is the 40th most popular geographer (down from 35th in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from Russia (down from 607th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Geographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky ranks 40 out of 67. Before him are Vincenzo Coronelli, Willem Blaeu, Alfred Hettner, Artemidorus Ephesius, Jovan Cvijić, and Johann Georg Gmelin. After him are Otto Nordenskjöld, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, and Erich von Drygalski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky ranks 24. Before him are Mihály Zichy, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Oswald Achenbach, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, and Henry Gray. After him are Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Jules Breton, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Lew Wallace, and Sandford Fleming. Among people deceased in 1914, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky ranks 42. Before him are Giuseppe Mercalli, Jurji Zaydan, Charles Martin Hall, Julio Argentino Roca, Theodor Lipps, and Louis Couturat. After him are George William Hill, John Muir, Ödön Lechner, John Henry Poynting, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, and Paul Héroult.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky ranks 714 out of 3,262. Before him are Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Yuri Norstein (1941), Otto Braun (1872), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Pavel Tretyakov (1832), and Pyotr Lavrov (1823). After him are Vasili Mitrokhin (1922), Platon Zubov (1767), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Yakov Pavlov (1917), and Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (1827).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Russia

Among geographers born in Russia, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky ranks 2. Before him are Wladimir Köppen (1846). After him are Erich von Drygalski (1865) and Yuly Shokalsky (1856).

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