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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 330,393 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Yermak Timofeyevich is the 273rd most popular military personnel (up from 286th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Russia (up from 249th in 2019) and the 17th 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 273 out of 1,468Before him are Andranik, Alois Brunner, Matthew C. Perry, Sun Bin, Maurice Benyovszky, and Omar Bradley. After him are Erich Priebke, Oenomaus, Wang Jian, Reinhard Gehlen, Gerhard Barkhorn, and Alexandre de Beauharnais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1532, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 2Before him is Tulsidas. After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Luís Fróis, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and Marino Grimani. Among people deceased in 1585, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 3Before him are Pope Gregory XIII and Ismihan Sultan. After him are Pierre de Ronsard, Andrea Gabrieli, Thomas Tallis, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Rembert Dodoens, Luca Cambiaso, and Nicolò da Ponte.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 226 out of 3,262Before him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Gherman Titov (1935), Vasily Blokhin (1895), and Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669). After him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), and Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Yermak Timofeyevich ranks 17Before him are Andrey Vlasov (1901), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Felix Steiner (1896), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Vasily Stalin (1921). After him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Alexander Yegorov (1883), and Dmitry Yazov (1924).