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Grigory Potanin

1835 - 1920

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Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (Russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Potanin was also an author and a political activist who aligned himself with the Siberian regionalist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Potanin is the 296th most popular explorer (down from 241st in 2019). (down from 2,027th in 2019)

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Among explorers, Grigory Potanin ranks 296 out of 498. Before him are Anthony Jenkinson, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, Wulfstan of Hedeby, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Ingvar the Far-Travelled. After him are Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Juan Pizarro, Pyotr Beketov, Bertrand Piccard, John Byron, and Lady Hester Stanhope.

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Among people born in 1835, Grigory Potanin ranks 52. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson, Raffi, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Adlai Stevenson I, Henri Brisson, and Franz Defregger. After him are Lunalilo, Raphael Kalinowski, Bertalan Székely, Krišjānis Barons, Felix Draeseke, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1920, Grigory Potanin ranks 64. Before him are Augusto Righi, John Wesley Hyatt, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Edmund Barton, Remus von Woyrsch, and Maciej Sulkiewicz. After him are Kliment Timiryazev, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, Delfim Moreira, Adolf Albin, Nataliya Kobrynska, and Sarada Devi.

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