Trending Explorers in Russia — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed explorers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tenzing Norgay. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
188,047
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
18,296
views
views
2
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)
10,172
views
views
3
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
8,805
views
views
4
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
7,778
views
views
5
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
6,605
views
views
6
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
5,432
views
views
7
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
4,867
views
views
8
Nikolay Gumilev
Russian poet (1886-1921)
4,437
views
views
9
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
4,271
views
views
10
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
3,151
views
views
11
Maxim Kammerer
2,968
views
views
12
Lavr Kornilov
Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)
2,950
views
views
13
Afanasy Nikitin
Russian explorer
2,932
views
views
14
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian cossack explorer and pirate
2,839
views
views
15
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
2,776
views
views
16
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
2,644
views
views
17
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
2,454
views
views
18
Willem Barents
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
2,309
views
views
19
George Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
2,308
views
views
20
Marco Polo
Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
2,298
views
views
21
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
2,266
views
views
22
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
2,258
views
views
23
Alexey Leonov
Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934–2019)
2,151
views
views
24
Michael Rockefeller
American anthropologist and art collector (1938–1961)
1,929
views
views
25
Yaroslav II of Vladimir
Grand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
1,821
views
views
26
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
1,793
views
views
27
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
1,782
views
views
28
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
1,749
views
views
29
Ulysses S. Grant
president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
1,730
views
views
30
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
1,657
views
views
31
Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
1,656
views
views
32
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Russian explorer and scientist
1,633
views
views
33
John Hurt
British actor (1940–2017)
1,603
views
views
34
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
1,589
views
views
35
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
British mountaineer, explorer and army officer (1910-1998)
1,579
views
views
36
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
1,543
views
views
37
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)
1,509
views
views
38
Gregor MacGregor
British soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster (1786-1845)
1,460
views
views
39
Svetlana Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut
1,438
views
views
40
Nikolay Przhevalsky
Russian soldier, explorer, & geographer (1839-1888)
1,438
views
views
41
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet (1854-1891)
1,426
views
views
42
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
1,418
views
views
43
Anatoli Boukreev
Russian mountain climber (1958-1997)
1,367
views
views
44
Abel Tasman
Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
1,334
views
views
45
Vladimir Arsenyev
Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)
1,298
views
views
46
Semyon Dezhnyov
Russian explorer
1,298
views
views
47
Viktor Suvorov
Soviet and Russian writer
1,259
views
views
48
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe (1770–1846)
1,257
views
views
49
Mikhail Mukasei
Soviet spy (1907–2008)
1,253
views
views
50
Yerofey Khabarov
Russian explorer
1,248
views
views
51
Walton Goggins
American actor (born 1971)
1,245
views
views
52
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
1,224
views
views
53
Vassili Poyarkov
Russian explorer
1,168
views
views
54
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
1,073
views
views
55
Yuri Senkevich
Russian physician and television host (1937–2003)
1,071
views
views
56
Dersu Uzala
Nanai hunter and explorer (1849–1908)
1,062
views
views
57
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
1,060
views
views
58
Avvakum
Russian protopope
1,048
views
views
59
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)
1,017
views
views
60
Karl Bushby
British pedestrian circumnavigator of the globe
1,007
views
views
61
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)
1,007
views
views
62
Lara Croft
Tomb Raider protagonist character
963
views
views
63
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Russian geographer, art collector and statistician
948
views
views
64
Mikhail Lazarev
Russian fleet commander and explorer (1788-1851)
911
views
views
65
Nikolai Rezanov
Russian noble and explorer (1764-1807)
896
views
views
66
Hugh Glass
American fur trapper and frontiersman
885
views
views
67
Ivan Moskvitin
Russian explorer
872
views
views
68
Vasily Tatishchev
Russian historian (1686-1750)
854
views
views
69
Harald III of Norway
King of Norway from 1046 to 1066
838
views
views
70
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)
831
views
views
71
Vladimir Pozner
Soviet spy (1908–1975)
798
views
views
72
Reinhold Messner
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)
794
views
views
73
Semyon Chelyuskin
Russian polar explorer and naval officer
769
views
views
74
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
767
views
views
75
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
763
views
views
76
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
760
views
views
77
Robert Peary
explorer from the United States (1856–1920)
758
views
views
78
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy
Russian explorer (1782-1846)
745
views
views
79
David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
740
views
views
80
Arthur Chilingarov
Russian explorer and politician (1939–2024)
725
views
views
81
Bear Grylls
English adventurer, writer and television presenter (born 1974)
713
views
views
82
Svetoslav Roerich
Russian artist (1904-1993)
690
views
views
83
Oleg Novitskiy
Russian cosmonaut
672
views
views
84
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer
666
views
views
85
Marat Kazey
Soviet-Belarusian partisan and child soldier of WW2
663
views
views
86
Erik the Red
explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland
654
views
views
87
Iosif Grigulevich
Soviet spy and Costa Rican diplomat (1913–1988)
646
views
views
88
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
643
views
views
89
Mister Fantastic
fictional character in Marvel Comics
627
views
views
90
Captain Nemo
fictional character created by Jules Verne
622
views
views
91
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
617
views
views
92
Christopher McCandless
American hiker and explorer (1968–1992)
610
views
views
93
Lathgertha
legendary Viking shieldmaiden and ruler
609
views
views
94
Gennady Nevelskoy
Russian navigator (1813-1876)
606
views
views
95
Grigory Shelikhov
Russian explorer
581
views
views
96
Vladimir A. Obruchev
Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)
562
views
views
97
Scott Fischer
American mountaineer and mountain guide (1955–1996)
561
views
views
98
Ivan Papanin
Soviet explorer (1894–1986)
561
views
views
99
Walter Raleigh
English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)
560
views
views
100
Helena Roerich
Russian spiritual philosopher, occult writer, theosophist (1879—1955)
551
views
views