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GEOLOGIST

Vasily Dokuchaev

1846 - 1903

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Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Докуча́ев; 1 March 1846 – 8 November 1903) was a Russian geologist and geographer who is credited with laying the foundations of soil science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Dokuchaev has received more than 125,275 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Vasily Dokuchaev is the 13th most popular geologist (up from 15th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 420th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 13 out of 59. Before him are Milutin Milanković, James Hutton, Andrija Mohorovičić, Friedrich Mohs, Eduard Suess, and Francis Beaufort. After him are Beno Gutenberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Ignacy Domeyko, Gideon Mantell, and Christian Leopold von Buch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 19. Before him are Nectarios of Aegina, Émile Gallé, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, G. Stanley Hall, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Eusebi Güell. After him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Anna Dostoevskaya, Karl von Bülow, Léon Bloy, Mariam Baouardy, and Alexander von Kluck. Among people deceased in 1903, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 18. Before him are Hugo Wolf, Gotse Delchev, Calamity Jane, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Gemma Galgani. After him are Draga Mašin, Camillo Sitte, Richard Jordan Gatling, Marcel Renault, Sabino Arana, and Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 363 out of 3,262. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896), Galina Ulanova (1910), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Henri Troyat (1911), and Sergey Ilyushin (1894). After him are Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vera Menchik (1906), Jani Beg (1300), and Ivan Serov (1905).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among geologists born in Russia, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Obruchev (1863), Alexander Karpinsky (1846), Maria Klenova (1898), and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861).

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