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Mikhail Somov

1908 - 1973

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Сомов; 7 April [O.S. 25 March] 1908, in Moscow – 30 December 1973, in Leningrad) was a Soviet oceanologist, polar explorer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1954). Somov graduated from the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute in 1937. In 1939, he was appointed senior researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. In 1950–1951, Mikhail Somov headed a drift-ice station North Pole-2. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Somov is the 438th most popular explorer (down from 436th in 2019), the 2,059th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,052nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Mikhail Somov ranks 438 out of 498. Before him are Frederick Russell Burnham, Tim Severin, Alfred Maudslay, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Carl Koldewey, and Tobias Furneaux. After him are Vassili Poyarkov, Aeneas Mackintosh, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Boyd Alexander, Georgy Ushakov, and Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mikhail Somov ranks 349. Before him are William McMahon, Hélène Boucher, Inga Gentzel, Franz Cisar, Birago Diop, and William Thompson. After him are Sergey Urusevsky, Demetrio Neyra, Théodore Nouwens, Miguel Otero Silva, Sulo Nurmela, and Jack Gilford. Among people deceased in 1973, Mikhail Somov ranks 232. Before him are Raymond Schwartz, Betty Field, Robert Buron, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Brigitte Reimann, and Hellmuth Kneser. After him are Kurt Thomas, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Arthur Freed, Earl Browder, Piero Drogo, and Robert Défossé.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Somov ranks 2,059 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoly Kuznetsov (1930), Georgi Yumatov (1926), Lyudmila Narusova (1951), Mariya Smirnova (1920), Alexander Shishkov (1754), and Tamara Moskvina (1941). After him are Mikhail Tyurin (1960), Sergey Urusevsky (1908), Vassili Poyarkov (null), Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861), Viktor Anichkin (1941), and Pentti Saarikoski (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Mikhail Somov ranks 29. Before him are Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Alexander Fersman (1883), Artur Chilingarov (1939), and Gennady Nevelskoy (1813). After him are Vassili Poyarkov (null), Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860), Georgy Ushakov (1901), Valerian Albanov (1881), and Aleksandra Potanina (1843).

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