Nikolai Petrovich Rychkov

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Nikolai Petrowitsch Rytschkow ( Russian: Николай Петрович Рычков ; born October 15, 1746 in Orenburg , † 1784 ibid) was a Russian explorer and geographer .

Life

Rytschkow was the second son of the historian Pyotr Ivanovich Rytschkow . He completed his training in the army by serving in various infantry regiments and was discharged from military service as a captain in 1767 and sent to the academy expeditions.

1768 Rytschkow took part in Ivan Ivanovich Lepjochin's expedition to Orenburg . In 1769 and 1770 he explored the governorates of Kazan , Orenburg , Ufa , Vyatka and Perm on behalf of Peter Simon Pallas . In the spring of 1769 he examined the forest steppe and steppe on the Kama . In June 1969 he observed the transit of Venus in front of the sun . Then he followed the Ik , the Great Kinel , the Djoma and the Belaya . In 1770 he explored in the Vyatka opens Cheptsa River . He then spent the winter in Chelyabinsk . His reports were published by the Academy in two parts, while the topography of his father's Orenburg governorate appeared later.

In the summer of 1771, Rytschkow was assigned to a military caravan. He was now exploring the steppe on the Ishim in the Kazak Khanate . Then he went to the steppe east of the Mugodschar Mountains . In 1772 he became chief director of the new silk factories on the Akhtuba . In 1780 he was appointed Hofrat (7th class ). The Kollegienrat followed in 1784 (6th class).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Иосиф Магидович, Вадим Магидович: История открытия и исследования Европы . ozon.ru, Moscow 1970, p. 245–247 ( ozon.ru [accessed November 6, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Биография.ру: Рычков Николай Петрович (accessed November 6, 2017).
  3. ↑ Журнал или дневные записки путешествия по разным провинциям Российского государства 1769 и 1770 годова 1769 и 1770 годова 1 . St. Petersburg 1770.
  4. ↑ Журнал или дневные записки путешествия по разным провинциям Российского государства 1769 и 1770 годова 1769 и 1770 годова 2 . St. Petersburg 1772.
  5. ↑ Топография Оренбургской губернии. Сочинение П.И. Рычкова 1762 года . Типография Б. Бреслина, Orenburg 1887 ( opck.org [PDF; accessed November 6, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Дневные записки путешествия в Киргиз-Кайсацкой степи в 1771 году . St. Petersburg 1772.
  7. ↑ А. А. Клушин: История Ахтубинского шелководства . 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Rychkov, Nikolai Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Рычков, Николай Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian explorer and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Orenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1784
Place of death Orenburg