Essays on Northwestern Mongolia: Results of the 1879--1880 Travels for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin (1835--1920) was a Russian scholar and public figure, a pioneer of regional studies, and an expert on the cultural life of Siberia. Learned as a geographer, historian, ethnographer, and naturalist, he traveled extensively to parts of present-day Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, beginning with his military service. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1859--61. He and…
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Potanin, G. N. (Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich)
Book/Printed MaterialEssays on Northwestern Mongolia: Results of the 1879--1880 Travels for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin (1835--1920) was a Russian scholar and public figure, a pioneer of regional studies, and an expert on the cultural life of Siberia. Learned as a geographer, historian, ethnographer, and naturalist, he traveled extensively to parts of present-day Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, beginning with his military service. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1859--61. He and…