GEOLOGIST

Vladimir Obruchev

1863 - 1956

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Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич О́бручев; October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1863 – June 19, 1956) was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Obruchev has received more than 57,251 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Obruchev is the 26th most popular geologist (down from 24th in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from Russia (down from 841st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Geologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Vladimir Obruchev ranks 26 out of 90. Before him are Giuseppe Mercalli, Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, and John Tuzo Wilson. After him are Julius von Haast, Norman L. Bowen, Barnum Brown, Albert Heim, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, and Anna Missuna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Vladimir Obruchev ranks 76. Before him are Charles Pathé, Géza Gárdonyi, Max Skladanowsky, Eero Järnefelt, Yevhen Petrushevych, and Princess Mathilde of Saxony. After him are Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Francisco León de la Barra, Louis Couperus, Franz Schalk, Olha Kobylianska, and Ashraf Ali Thanwi. Among people deceased in 1956, Vladimir Obruchev ranks 99. Before him are Victor Young, Carl Brockelmann, Marcel Griaule, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Samad Vurgun, and Harold Bride. After him are Louis Rosier, Israel Zolli, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Frigyes Riesz, Stan Ockers, and Leo Baeck.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Obruchev ranks 999 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Zverev (1832), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Oleg Yefremov (1927), and Yury Yakovlev (1928). After him are Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Leo Borchard (1899), Vasily of Kostroma (1241), Pavel Kiselyov (1788), Semyon Krivoshein (1899), and Konstantin of Rostov (1185).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among geologists born in Russia, Vladimir Obruchev ranks 2. Before him are Vasily Dokuchaev (1846). After him are Alexander Karpinsky (1846), Maria Klenova (1898), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861).

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