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See also:ALEXIS PAVLOVICH See also:FEDCHENKO (1844-1873) , See also:Russian naturalist and traveller, well known for his explorations in central See also:Asia, was See also:born at See also:Irkutsk, in See also:Siberia, on the 7th of See also:February 1844; and, after attending the gymnasium of his native See also:town, proceeded to the university of See also:Moscow, for the study more especially of See also:zoology and See also:geology . In 1868 he travelled through See also:Turkestan, the See also:district of the See also:lower Syr-Darya and See also:Samarkand; and shortly after his return he set out for See also:Khokand, where he visited a large portion of territory till then unknown . Soon after his return to See also:Europe he perished on Mont See also:Blanc while engaged in an exploring tour in See also:Switzerland, on the 15th of See also:September 873 . Accounts of the explorations and discoveries of See also:Fedchenko have been published by the Russian See also:government,—his Journeys in Turkestan in 1874, In the Khanat of Khokand in 1875, and Botanical Discoveries in 1876 . See See also:Petermann's Mittheilungen (1872-1874) . |
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