Geographer Biography

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky-geographer, traveler, scientist on June 20 Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky--the world-famous researcher-nurser.

He was born on April 12 in the village of Kimborovo, Smolensk region. The family of Przhevalsky belonged to the old gentry family and had its own coat of arms, granted for the manifest valor during military battles. He devoted his life to the study of Central Asia. Even in his youth, the future traveler made an expedition to the Ussuri Territory, which became one of the most significant Asian research of the 19th century.

Thanks to his expeditions, Europeans received an idea of ​​a vast territory from Mongolia, Dzungaria to East Tibet and Turkestan, and the unique original culture of Asia. Over the years of travel, Nikolai Przhevalsky made a number of the most important scientific discoveries: he became the first white man who managed to penetrate into the depths of Northern Tibet, to the upper reaches of the great rivers of Yangta and the Juanhee, and carefully explore these territories.

His Peru owns detailed descriptions of the deserts of Alashani, Ordos and Gobi, the highlands of Northern Tibet. Nikolai Przhevalsky supplemented the maps of Central Asia that exist at that time and put previously unknown ridges, large and small lakes on them. One of the first to investigate the mysterious Lake Lobnor - a "mowing" silty freshwater reservoir in the west of China. The nomadic one was nicknamed for an amazing property: over several centuries, the lake moved after the channel of the Tarim River for more than kilometers.

The Russian traveler became the discoverer of the Nizovius Tarim and the Altyntag ridge, as well as the whole mountain country of Kunlun, the existence of which no one was even aware of in Europe. Nikolai Przhevalsky discovered several species of animals, including a wild camel, a wild horse, a Tibetan bear. The researcher and geographer collected impressive zoological, mineralogical and botanical collections.

Today, the name of Nikolai Przhevalsky is named the glacier on Altai, the Range in the Kunlun, many species of plants and animals. In the year, on the proposal of the Russian Geographical Society, a special prize named after Nikolai Przhevalsky and a silver medal was established, and in the year - gold. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter of the RGO The most interesting materials of our site, a set of expeditions, announcements of lectures and exhibitions.

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