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Yermak Timofeyevich

1532 - 1585

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Yermak Timofeyevich (Russian: Ермак Тимофеевич, IPA: [jɪrˈmak tʲɪmɐˈfʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ]; born between 1532 – August 5 or 6, 1585) was a Cossack ataman and is today a hero in Russian folklore and myths. During the reign of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible, Yermak started the Russian conquest of Siberia. Russians' fur-trade interests fueled their desire to expand east into Siberia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yermak Timofeyevich has received more than 361,912 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Yermak Timofeyevich is the 331st most popular military personnel (down from 273rd in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Russia (down from 225th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Yermak Timofeyevich was a Cossack leader who led a campaign against the Khanate of Sibir and the Khanate of Kazan. He was most famous for conquering the Khanate of Sibir and the Khanate of Kazan.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 331 out of 2,058. Before him are Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Reinhard Gehlen, Prokop the Great, Shunroku Hata, François Christophe de Kellermann, and Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno. After him are Kul Tigin, Thomas the Slav, Ishida Mitsunari, Emilio De Bono, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Yamagata Aritomo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1532, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 2. Before him is Tulsidas. After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Luís Fróis, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and Maerten de Vos. Among people deceased in 1585, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 4. Before him are Pope Gregory XIII, Pierre de Ronsard, and Ismihan Sultan. After him are Andrea Gabrieli, Thomas Tallis, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Pontus De la Gardie, Rembert Dodoens, Luca Cambiaso, and Nicolò da Ponte.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 271 out of 3,761. Before him are Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855). After him are Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), and Vasily Vereshchagin (1842).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 25. Before him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862). After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Andrei Grechko (1903), Sergei Skripal (1951), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Alexander Yegorov (1883), and Leonid Govorov (1897).

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