Alexandra Viktorovna Potanina

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Cyrillic ( Russian )
Алекса́ндра Ви́кторовна Пота́нина
Transl. : Aleksandra Viktorovna Potanina
Transcr. : Alexandra Viktorovna Potanina
Alexandra Potanina

Aleksandra Potanina (born January 25, jul. / 6. February  1843 greg. In Gorbatov , government Nizhny Novgorod , † September 19 jul. / 1. October  1893 greg. At Zhuo-Hua , China ) was a Russian geographer and explorer . She was the first woman to be admitted to the Russian Geographical Society .

Life

She was the daughter of the teacher of the Nizhny Novgorod seminary, Viktor Lavrovsky. At home she was raised by her older brothers and attended a school for clergy girls. She read a lot and had a talent for drawing. In 1866 she became a teacher in the city's diocesan school. In 1872, while visiting her exiled brother Konstantin in Nikolsk (Vologda Oblast) , she met his friend Grigori Potanin , whom she married in 1874 and with whom she moved to Saint Petersburg .

Together with her husband, Potanina took part in four research trips to Central Asia between 1876 and 1893 . The first expedition led in 1876/1877 to the north-west of Mongolia , in 1879/1880 an expedition followed from the place Saissan into the valley of the black Irtysh , from 1884 to 1886 northern China, eastern Tibet and central Mongolia were visited, 1892/1893 finally the Tibetan highlands and the Gobi desert . During the last expedition Potanina became seriously ill and died near Zhuo-Hua on the way to Shanghai . She was buried in Kjachta ( Buryatia ).

Awards

In 1887 she was awarded the great gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society for her scientific work "The Buryats" . In the mountains of the Mongolian Altai a glacier "Alexandrin" is named after her.

Publications

  • Буряты (The Buryats) (1891)
  • Из путешествий по Восточной Сибири, Монголии, Тибету и Китаю (From a trip to Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet and China) (1895)
  • Статьясен пуххи (1895)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Alexandra Viktorovna Potanina in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D091940~2a%3D~2b%3DAlexandra%20Wiktorowna%20Potanina
personal data
SURNAME Potanina, Alexandra Viktorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Потанина, Александра Викторовна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geographer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorbatov , Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1893
Place of death Zhuo-Hua , China