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Aleksei Chirikov

1703 - 1748

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Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (Russian: Алексе́й Ильи́ч Чи́риков; 1703 – November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America. He discovered and charted some of the Aleutian Islands while he was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Great Northern Expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksei Chirikov is the 272nd most popular explorer (up from 287th in 2019), the 1,027th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,153rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 272 out of 498Before him are Jedediah Smith, Man of the Hole, Francisco Moreno, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Juan Fernández, and Hjalmar Johansen. After him are Pyotr Kozlov, Grigory Shelikhov, Charles Wilkes, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Richard Chancellor, and László Almásy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 11Before him are Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach. After him are Johann Gottlieb Graun, Jean-François Séguier, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mary Toft, Jack Broughton, and Kashibai. Among people deceased in 1748, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 13Before him are Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, William Kent, and Abul Khair Khan. After him are Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Isaac Watts, Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and William Adam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 1,027 out of 3,761Before him are Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Stepan Petrichenko (1892), Semyon Krivoshein (1899), and Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874). After him are Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896), Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1869), Sergei Nilus (1862), Julia Lermontova (1847), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), and Igor Kirillov (1932).

Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Aleksei Chirikov ranks 14Before him are Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Dmitry Laptev (1701), and Karl Maximovich (1827). After him are Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Boris Vilkitsky (1885), and Irina Solovyova (1937).