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Stepan Makarov

1848 - 1904

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Stepan Osipovich Makarov (Russian: Степан Осипович Макаров, Ukrainian: Степан Осипович Макаров; 8 January 1849 [O.S. 27 December 1848] – 13 April [O.S. 31 March] 1904) was a Russian vice-admiral, commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He was a pioneer of insubmersibility theory (the concept of counter-flooding to stabilise a damaged ship), and developer of a Cyrillic-based semaphore alphabet. A proponent of icebreaker use, he supervised the first polar icebreaker construction. Makarov also designed several ships. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stepan Makarov is the 82nd most popular explorer (down from 81st in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Explorer.

Stepan Makarov was a Russian naval officer who served as commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War. He is best known for his leadership during the Battle of Tsushima, which led to the destruction of the Imperial Russian Navy and the capture of the Baltic Fleet.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Stepan Makarov ranks 82 out of 498. Before him are Diogo Dias, Ármin Vámbéry, Juan Díaz de Solís, Xu Fu, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, and Richard Francis Burton. After him are Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Diego Columbus, Jeanne Baret, and Willem Janszoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Stepan Makarov ranks 20. Before him are Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Wilhelm Windelband. After him are Wyatt Earp, Loránd Eötvös, Carl Wernicke, William II of Württemberg, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, and Milena Vukotić. Among people deceased in 1904, Stepan Makarov ranks 17. Before him are Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Fantin-Latour, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Vasily Vereshchagin. After him are Paul Kruger, George, King of Saxony, Émile Gallé, Lafcadio Hearn, Eduard Hanslick, and Étienne-Jules Marey.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stepan Makarov ranks 118 out of 1,365. Before him are Roald Hoffmann (1937), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920). After him are Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Emil Gilels (1916), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), and Alexander Samsonov (1859).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ukraine

Among explorers born in Ukraine, Stepan Makarov ranks 1. After him are Yuri Lisyansky (1773), and Georgy Sedov (1877).

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