Stepan Makarov

Stepan Makarov

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 ever polar icebreaker construction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stepan Makarov has received more than 325,287 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Stepan Makarov is the 81st most popular explorer (up from 87th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 113th 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.