EXPLORER

Nikolay Przhevalsky

1839 - 1888

Photo of Nikolay Przhevalsky

Icon of person Nikolay Przhevalsky

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1839 – 1 November [O.S. 20 October] 1888) was a Russian geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the city of Lhasa in Tibet, he still travelled through regions then unknown to Westerners, such as northern Tibet (modern Tibet Autonomous Region), Amdo (now Qinghai) and Dzungaria (now northern Xinjiang). He contributed substantially to European knowledge of Central Asian geography. Przhevalsky described several species previously unknown to European science, such as Przewalski's horse, Przewalski's gazelle, and the wild Bactrian camel, all of which are now endangered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Przhevalsky is the 62nd most popular explorer (up from 66th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Russia (up from 243rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Explorer.

Nikolay Przhevalsky was a Russian explorer who traveled to Mongolia and Tibet in the late 1800s. He is most famous for discovering the Tibetan wild ass, which he named the "Tibetan wild ass" or "Equus hemionus onager."

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Nikolay Przhevalsky by language

Loading...

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 62 out of 498. Before him are Zhang Qian, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Henry Hudson, Himilco, Diogo Cão, and Hernando de Soto. After him are Yaqut al-Hamawi, John Ross, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, and William Dampier.

Most Popular Explorers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 12. Before him are Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, and Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria. After him are Josephine Cochrane, Emil Škoda, Frances Willard, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Princess Cecilie of Baden, and Nikolay Bobrikov. Among people deceased in 1888, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 10. Before him are John Bosco, Frederick III, German Emperor, Rudolf Clausius, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Carl Zeiss, and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are François Achille Bazaine, Anton Mauve, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Paul Langerhans, Johannes Zukertort, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

Others Born in 1839

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1888

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 217 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863). After him are Vasily Blokhin (1895), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Alexei Navalny (1976), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Nikolay Przhevalsky ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Dmitry Laptev (1701).

Russian born Explorers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous