Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was born on April 12, 1839 in Kimborovo's selets of the Smolensk province, in rather poor family. The six-year child it lost the father. It was brought up by mother - the woman clever and strict. It provided to the son wide freedom, allowed it to leave the house in any weather, to wander on the wood and bogs. Its influence on the son was very great. To it as well as to the nurse to Olga Makaryevna, Nikolay Mikhaylovich forever kept gentle attachment.

Great Russian traveler, geographer, researcher of Central Asia. Major general (1886). Carried out expeditions: to the Ussuriisk Territory (1867 -69), to Mongolia, China, Tibet (1870 -73), to the Lake Lop Nor and to Dzungaria (1878 -77), to Central Asia: the first Tibetan (1879 -80) and the second Tibetan (1883 -85). Przhevalsky established the direction of the main ridges of Central Asia and opened a row new, specified northern borders of the Plateau of Tibet, described the lake Lop Nor. During expeditions were collected extensive zoological (over 7, 5 thousand copies of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibious and fishes; opened and described a wild camel, a wild horse - the well-known horse Przhevalsky and other types of vertebrata), botanical (a herbarium in number of 15– 16 thousand copies of the plants making 1700 types from which botanists described for the first time 218 new types and 7 childbirth) and mineralogical collections. Results of the expeditions of N. M. Przhevalsky stated in books: "Mongolia and the country of Tanguts" (1875 -1876), "From Zaisan through Be rude to Tibet and on upper courses of the Yellow River" (1883), "From Kyakhta on sources of the Yellow River" (1888).

Died on November 1, 1888 in Karakol (Kyrgyzstan), after renamed in Przhevalsk; it is buried on the bank of the Lake Issyk Kul. Przhevalsky the ridge in system Kunlunya, a glacier on Altai, other geographical objects, and also a number of animal species and plants is also called a name.