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Bio Rychkova Peter Ivanovich

Rychkov Peter Ivanovich (1712 – 1777). PI Rychkov – pupil Tatischev, contemporary Lomonosov – is among the largest Russian geographers middle of XVIII century. PI Rychkov, as SP Krasheninnikov, is credited with drawing up the first regional work on the geography of Russia, served as models for subsequent descriptions of individual parts of our country. Following VNTatischev, Rychkov in their geographical studies sought to be practically useful for the country's economic development.
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Jul201013

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Biography of Alexander Kovalevsky Onufrievich

Kovalevsky Alexander Onufrievich (1840) – zoologist, ordinary academician Imp. Academy of Sciences, born in 1840, first education received at home, then in the case of Railway Engineers, from which he emerged in 1859 and enrolled in St. Petersburg. University of Natural Sciences category.
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Jul201012

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Biography Potebni Alexander Afanasievich

Potebnya Alexander Afanasyevich (09/10/1835 – 29/11/1891) – a famous scientist, Little Russian by origin and personal sympathies, born into a poor aristocratic family in Romny., Poltava province, went to Radom and gymnasium at the Kharkov University, the historico-philological faculty. The university used the PA advice and benefits P. and N. Lavrovsky and was partly influenced by prof. Metlinskogo, a great admirer of Little Russian language and poetry, and student Negovskaya, one of the earliest and most zealous collectors of Little-Russian songs. In his youth P. also collected folk songs: part of them was in "Proceedings of the consignment note .- Art. Exp." Chubynskyi. Not long after having been a teacher of Russian literature at a gymnasium of the Kharkov, PA. to protect the master's thesis: "Some characters in the Slavic Folk Poetry" (1860), began to lecture at the Kharkov University, first as an associate and then as a professor. In 1874 he defended his doctoral thesis: "From the notes on Russian grammar. Was the chairman of the Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society and a member of the Academy of Sciences.
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Jun201025

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Biography of Nikolai Stepanovich Nesterov

Nesterov, Nikolay Stepanovich (23.10 (04.11) .1860 – 05.30.1926), Russian forester. In 1884 he graduated from the Forestry Department of Agriculture and Forestry Peter's Academy (now the Moscow Agricultural Academy. Timiryazev) and was retained by the Department of Forestry to prepare for the scientific work in 1900 – 1926 Professor.
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Jun201019

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Biography Venyukova Mikhail Ivanovich

Venyukov Michael Ivanovich (1832 – 1901). MI Venyukov – one of the most prominent Russian traveler and geographer, a man of broad scientific views and tireless research work. In his many years traveling, mostly on foot, in Asian countries along the Russian border, he gathered a huge collection for precise military-geographical description of this boundary and the adjacent areas. Having visited several countries in Asia, North Africa, Europe, Venyukov published his observations, a deeply sympathetic to the life of the masses, sharply hostile to all kinds of oppressors.
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Jun201018

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Biography Tsybikova Gonbochzhaba Tsebekovicha

Tsybikov Gonbochzhab Tsebekovich (1873 – 20/09/1930) G. Ts Tsybikov – the first traveler, and penetrated with a scientific purpose at the end of the last century, from Russia to the forbidden while for foreigners, Central and Southern Tibet, which vainly tried to get many travelers. Full description of the undiscovered country and her "holy" city of Lhasa is given to them in the book "Buddhist pilgrims at holy sites in Tibet, based on the diaries kept by a 1899 – 1902 years". G. Ts Tsybikov, Ph.D. St. Petersburg University, Buryat nationality, went to Tibet in the guise of a pilgrim-Lama, on behalf of and financed by the Russian Geographical Society. Journey lasted more than three years. Success in this bold endeavor approved priority of Russian science in the study of Tibet. His journey Tsybikov inscribed his name in history not only of ethnography, but also geography. These days, when the Tibetan people peacefully reunify with China, Democratic People's Republic to embark on the path of democracy and get rid of imperialist oppression, the study of Tibet, made Tsybikovym, acquires special significance. Tsybikov was not an impartial observer, like most Western travelers who visited the eastern countries, he tried with the full study of the Tibet not only show the outside of the country's life, but also reveal the social significance of events, becoming at the same time on the side of the exploited classes. Exotic lush lamayskoy ceremonies also attracted his attention by itself, and he has consistently demonstrated its reverse side – system of extortion and deception pilgrims and faithful people. Tsybikov born in Transbaikalia. He was given his father first in the parish school at Aga Steppe Duma, then in high school in Chita. At the end of it (1893) Tsybikov as one of the best students was aimed at government expense in Tomsk on the faculty of medicine, but he soon moved to St. Petersburg University Faculty of Oriental Languages (1895). While still a student, Tsybikov took part in the great scientific expeditions working on the study of land tenure and land use in the Trans-Baikal region (in the so-called Commission of Senator Kulomzina). In the 15 th edition of "Materials" of this commission was published the work Tsybikova "taxes and duties" (St. Petersburg, 1898).
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