Trending Explorers in Russia — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed explorers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tenzing Norgay. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
198,271
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
17,727
views
views
2
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)
10,019
views
views
3
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
8,006
views
views
4
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
7,904
views
views
5
Willem Barents
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
7,254
views
views
6
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
7,212
views
views
7
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
5,976
views
views
8
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
5,234
views
views
9
Nikolay Gumilev
Russian poet (1886-1921)
4,558
views
views
10
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
3,697
views
views
11
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
3,547
views
views
12
Afanasy Nikitin
Russian explorer
3,185
views
views
13
Maxim Kammerer
3,141
views
views
14
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian cossack explorer and pirate
3,123
views
views
15
Lavr Kornilov
Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)
2,941
views
views
16
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
2,760
views
views
17
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
2,711
views
views
18
Marco Polo
Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
2,604
views
views
19
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
2,598
views
views
20
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
2,596
views
views
21
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
2,251
views
views
22
Alexey Leonov
Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934–2019)
2,222
views
views
23
George Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
2,220
views
views
24
Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
2,118
views
views
25
Michael Rockefeller
American anthropologist and art collector (1938–1961)
1,989
views
views
26
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
1,835
views
views
27
Yaroslav II of Vladimir
Grand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
1,811
views
views
28
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
1,775
views
views
29
Ulysses S. Grant
president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
1,751
views
views
30
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
1,735
views
views
31
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
1,716
views
views
32
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
1,679
views
views
33
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Russian explorer and scientist
1,666
views
views
34
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
1,646
views
views
35
Abel Tasman
Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
1,635
views
views
36
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
1,602
views
views
37
Nikolay Przhevalsky
Russian soldier, explorer, & geographer (1839-1888)
1,598
views
views
38
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
British mountaineer, explorer and army officer (1910-1998)
1,542
views
views
39
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)
1,525
views
views
40
John Hurt
British actor (1940–2017)
1,523
views
views
41
Svetlana Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut
1,483
views
views
42
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet (1854-1891)
1,469
views
views
43
Semyon Dezhnyov
Russian explorer
1,429
views
views
44
Gregor MacGregor
British soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster (1786-1845)
1,428
views
views
45
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe (1770–1846)
1,361
views
views
46
Mikhail Mukasei
Soviet spy (1907–2008)
1,343
views
views
47
Anatoli Boukreev
Russian mountain climber (1958-1997)
1,331
views
views
48
Vladimir Arsenyev
Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)
1,310
views
views
49
Yerofey Khabarov
Russian explorer
1,284
views
views
50
Viktor Suvorov
Soviet and Russian writer
1,252
views
views
51
Walton Goggins
American actor (born 1971)
1,238
views
views
52
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
1,221
views
views
53
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
1,210
views
views
54
Gerrit de Veer
Dutch naval officer
1,206
views
views
55
Yuri Senkevich
Russian physician and television host (1937–2003)
1,137
views
views
56
Karl Bushby
British pedestrian circumnavigator of the globe
1,127
views
views
57
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)
1,125
views
views
58
Dersu Uzala
Nanai hunter and explorer (1849–1908)
1,091
views
views
59
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
1,088
views
views
60
Ivan Moskvitin
Russian explorer
1,053
views
views
61
Mikhail Lazarev
Russian fleet commander and explorer (1788-1851)
1,049
views
views
62
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)
1,036
views
views
63
Vassili Poyarkov
Russian explorer
1,015
views
views
64
Avvakum
Russian protopope
995
views
views
65
Robert Peary
explorer from the United States (1856–1920)
945
views
views
66
Nikolai Rezanov
Russian noble and explorer (1764-1807)
939
views
views
67
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Russian geographer, art collector and statistician
914
views
views
68
Hugh Glass
American fur trapper and frontiersman
904
views
views
69
David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
884
views
views
70
Vasily Tatishchev
Russian historian (1686-1750)
876
views
views
71
Lara Croft
Tomb Raider protagonist character
853
views
views
72
Semyon Chelyuskin
Russian polar explorer and naval officer
846
views
views
73
Harald III of Norway
King of Norway from 1046 to 1066
841
views
views
74
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)
799
views
views
75
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
796
views
views
76
Vladimir Pozner
Soviet spy (1908–1975)
794
views
views
77
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy
Russian explorer (1782-1846)
773
views
views
78
Reinhold Messner
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)
771
views
views
79
Arthur Chilingarov
Russian explorer and politician (1939–2024)
770
views
views
80
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer
765
views
views
81
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
740
views
views
82
Oleg Novitskiy
Russian cosmonaut
730
views
views
83
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
719
views
views
84
Erik the Red
explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland
717
views
views
85
Bear Grylls
English adventurer, writer and television presenter (born 1974)
686
views
views
86
Marat Kazey
Soviet-Belarusian partisan and child soldier of WW2
679
views
views
87
Ibn Battuta
14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
677
views
views
88
Svetoslav Roerich
Russian artist (1904-1993)
674
views
views
89
Captain Nemo
fictional character created by Jules Verne
655
views
views
90
Grigory Shelikhov
Russian explorer
649
views
views
91
Gennady Nevelskoy
Russian navigator (1813-1876)
620
views
views
92
Christopher McCandless
American hiker and explorer (1968–1992)
619
views
views
93
Mister Fantastic
fictional character in Marvel Comics
616
views
views
94
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
614
views
views
95
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
599
views
views
96
Scott Fischer
American mountaineer and mountain guide (1955–1996)
594
views
views
97
Lathgertha
legendary Viking shieldmaiden and ruler
592
views
views
98
Ivan Papanin
Soviet explorer (1894–1986)
575
views
views
99
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
Russian noble (1809-1881)
571
views
views
100
Helena Roerich
Russian spiritual philosopher, occult writer, theosophist (1879—1955)
562
views
views