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Dmitry Laptev

1701 - 1771

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Dmitry Yakovlevich Laptev (Russian: Дмитрий Яковлевич Лаптев) (1701 – January [O.S. 10 January] 1771) was a Russian Arctic explorer and Vice Admiral (1762). The Dmitry Laptev Strait is named in his honor and the Laptev Sea is named in honor of him and his cousin, and fellow Arctic explorer, Khariton Laptev. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Laptev is the 248th most popular explorer (up from 320th in 2019), the 894th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,339th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Dmitry Laptev ranks 248 out of 498. Before him are Louise Arner Boyd, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Vladimir Atlasov, Nikolaus Federmann, St John Philby, and Yerofey Khabarov. After him are Jan Czerski, Francisco Serrão, Friedrich Welwitsch, Diego de Almagro II, Julius Klaproth, and Thorvald Eiriksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1701, Dmitry Laptev ranks 10. Before him are Anna Magdalena Bach, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pietro Longhi, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Sharaku, and Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo. After him are Johan Agrell, Nicolai Eigtved, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Wu Jingzi, Johann Jakob Breitinger, and Thomas Hudson. Among people deceased in 1771, Dmitry Laptev ranks 13. Before him are Henri Pitot, John Bevis, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, František Brixi, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett. After him are Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Alexei Razumovsky, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, and William Fermor.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Laptev ranks 894 out of 3,761. Before him are Léonide Massine (1896), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Yury Romanenko (1944), Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (1894), Vera Krepkina (1933), and Vitaly Abalakov (1906). After him are Vladimir Stasov (1824), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), Hermann von Struve (1854), Konstantin Leontiev (1831), Vasily Golovnin (1776), and Irina Shayk (1986).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Dmitry Laptev ranks 12. Before him are Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), and Yerofey Khabarov (1603). After him are Karl Maximovich (1827), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), and Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808).

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