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Stepan Makarov

1848 - 1904

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Stepan Osipovich Makarov (Russian: Степан Осипович Макаров, Ukrainian: Степан Осипович Макаров; 8 January 1849 [O.S. 27 December 1848] – 13 April [O.S. 31 March] 1904) was a Russian vice-admiral, commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He was a pioneer of insubmersibility theory (the concept of counter-flooding to stabilise a damaged ship), and developer of a Cyrillic-based semaphore alphabet. A proponent of icebreaker use, he supervised the first polar icebreaker construction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stepan Makarov has received more than 355,903 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Stepan Makarov is the 81st most popular explorer (down from 80th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 107th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Explorer.

Stepan Makarov was a Russian naval officer who served as commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War. He is best known for his leadership during the Battle of Tsushima, which led to the destruction of the Imperial Russian Navy and the capture of the Baltic Fleet.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Stepan Makarov ranks 81 out of 498. Before him are William Dampier, Jeanne Baret, Ármin Vámbéry, Diego Columbus, Lope de Aguirre, and Willem Janszoon. After him are Juan Díaz de Solís, James Clark Ross, Hugh Glass, Sebastian Cabot, Jean de Béthencourt, and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Stepan Makarov ranks 19. Before him are Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wyatt Earp, Wilhelm Windelband, Viktor Vasnetsov, and Aleksey Kuropatkin. After him are William II of Württemberg, Carl Wernicke, Katsura Tarō, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Milena Vukotić, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Among people deceased in 1904, Stepan Makarov ranks 17. Before him are Gabriel Tarde, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Eadweard Muybridge, Henri Fantin-Latour, Vasily Vereshchagin, and George, King of Saxony. After him are Paul Kruger, Lafcadio Hearn, Étienne-Jules Marey, Mathilde Bonaparte, Émile Gallé, and Norodom of Cambodia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stepan Makarov ranks 113 out of 1,365. Before him are Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), Boris Shcherbina (1919), and Ivan Paskevich (1782). After him are Alexander Archipenko (1887), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), and Alexander Dovzhenko (1894).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ukraine

Among explorers born in Ukraine, Stepan Makarov ranks 1. After him are Yuri Lisyansky (1773), and Georgy Sedov (1877).

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