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Shoqan Walikhanov

1835 - 1865

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Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov (Kazakh: Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлихан, romanized: Şoqan Şyñğysūly Uälihan, Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов), given name Mukhammed Kanafiya (Kazakh: Мұхаммед Қанафия, romanized: Mūkhammed Qanafiya) (November 1835 – April 10, 1865) was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. His reputation "as the father of modern Kazakh history and ethnography" is recorded in the Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences became the Ch.Ch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shoqan Walikhanov has received more than 151,141 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Shoqan Walikhanov is the 96th most popular historian (down from 86th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Historian.

Shoqan Walikhanov is most famous for his work on the development of the Soviet space program. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and helped to design the Soviet space shuttle Buran.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 96 out of 561. Before him are Timaeus, Yuval Noah Harari, George Kedrenos, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Vasily Bartold, and Tyrannius Rufinus. After him are Christoph Cellarius, Eunapius, Matrakçı Nasuh, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Cangjie, and Shlomo Sand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 27. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Iwasaki Yatarō, Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Elisha Gray, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Alexander Agassiz, Simon Newcomb, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, and Matsukata Masayoshi. Among people deceased in 1865, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 17. Before him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Robert FitzRoy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, and Heinrich Barth. After him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Giuditta Pasta, Kunisada, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, and Constant Troyon.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 15 out of 193. Before him are Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), and Ablai Khan (1711). After him are Aleksandr Viktorenko (1947), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Oleg Yankovsky (1944), and Toktar Aubakirov (1946).

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Among HISTORIANS In Kazakhstan

Among historians born in Kazakhstan, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 1. 

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