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The Russian conquest of Central Asia was accompanied by the penetration of many explorers into the depths of Eurasia, including Mongolia, Jungaria and Tibet. Notable explorers in this direction included Chokan Valikhanov , Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky , Pyotr Chikhachyov , Nikolay Przhevalsky , Grigory Grum-Grshimailo , Bronislav Grombchevsky ...
One of the most important achievements of the expedition was the mapping of the north east part of Asia. The geography department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science published in 1754 a map with the title Nouvelle Carte des Découvertes faites par des Vaisseaux Russiens, which also depicted Vitus Bering's and Aleksei Chirikov's sea route.
The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1581–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers. Although outnumbered, the Russians pressured the various family-based tribes into changing their loyalties and establishing distant forts ...
Europe–Asia Studies 59.3 (2007): 481–501. Pierce, Richard A. Russian Central Asia, 1867–1917: a study in colonial rule (1960) online free to borrow; Quested, Rosemary. The expansion of Russia in East Asia, 1857–1860 (University of Malaya Press, 1968). Saray, Mehmet. "The Russian conquest of central Asia." Central Asian Survey 1.2-3 ...
A Portrait Person Achievements Image Valerian Albanov ‡ (1881–1919) Russian Navy lieutenant Albanov was one of the only two survivors of the ill-fated 1912–14 Brusilov expedition, the other being Alexander Konrad. They left the ice-bound ship St. Anna and by ski, sledge, and kayak crossed the Kara Sea, reached Franz Josef Land and were finally rescued by Georgy Sedov's Saint Phocas. The ...
The path of the First Kamchatka Expedition, map by Vasily Berkh. The First Kamchatka Expedition was the first Russian expedition to explore the Asian Pacific coast. It was commissioned by Peter the Great in 1724 and was led by Vitus Bering. Afield from 1725 to 1731, it was Russia's first naval scientific expedition. [1]
Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1860 (age 21) Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky; [note 1] 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1839 – 1 November [O.S. 20 October] 1888) was a Russian spy [1] and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.
Mikhail Spiridonovich Gvozdev (Russian: Михаи́л Спиридо́нович Гво́здев; c. 1700 – after 1759) was a Russian military geodesist and a commander of the expedition to northern Alaska in 1732, when the Alaskan shore was sighted by Russians for the first time.