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Yuri Lisyansky

1773 - 1837

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Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky (Ukrainian: Юрій Федорович Лисянський, romanized: Yuri Fedorovych Lysianskyi; Russian: Юрий Фёдорович Лисянский; 12 April [O.S. 1 April] 1773 – 6 March 1837) was an explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He served as a volunteer in the British Royal Navy and later headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the Neva. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Lisyansky has received more than 33,978 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yuri Lisyansky is the 238th most popular explorer (up from 280th in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 453rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Yuri Lisyansky ranks 238 out of 498Before him are Jorge Álvares, Yerofey Khabarov, Ohthere of Hålogaland, Wulfstan of Hedeby, Jan Czerski, and Pedro Cieza de León. After him are Pehr Osbeck, Eduard von Toll, Grigory Potanin, Nikolaus Federmann, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Yuri Lisyansky ranks 30Before him are Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Étienne Maurice Gérard, Ioannis Kolettis, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Jakob Friedrich Fries, and Josef Jungmann. After him are Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sally Hemings, Frédéric Cuvier, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Henrik Steffens, and Joseph de Villèle. Among people deceased in 1837, Yuri Lisyansky ranks 29Before him are Gaspar del Bufalo, Akbar II, Marguerite Gérard, John Latham, François-Xavier Fabre, and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. After him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Valentino Fioravanti, Alexander Bestuzhev, Agustín Eyzaguirre, and Herman of Alaska.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Lisyansky ranks 379 out of 1,365Before him are Leonid Popov (1945), Dimitry of Rostov (1651), Vitold Fokin (1932), Alexander Matrosov (1924), Anna Bilińska (1854), and Yuriy Drohobych (1450). After him are Anatoliy Byshovets (1946), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), Grigory Shtern (1900), and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938).

Among EXPLORERS In Ukraine

Among explorers born in Ukraine, Yuri Lisyansky ranks 2Before him are Stepan Makarov (1848). After him are Georgy Sedov (1877).