Grigory Potanin
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Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Potanin was
Grigory Nikolayaevich Potanin
Vasily Radlov
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Vasily Vasilievich Radlov, born Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was a German and Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of T
Grigory Potanin
…While there, he was the first foreigner to report on the East Yugur and West Yugur languages, making a glossary that was published with assistance from Vasily Radlov in his book on the expedition, The Tangut-Tibetan Borderlands of China and Central Mongolia in 1893. The book also contains a language glossary for the…
Radlov in 1917