Ryszard Zakrzewski was a Polish traveller, topographer, and an officer in the Russian Army who lived in the 19th century. Zakrzewski was a member of the Russian Geographical Society. He was an author of topographic works and focused his research on the Altay, Dzungaria, and Semirechye regions.
In 1886, he headed a geographic expedition responsible for surveying the northwestern territories in China known as Dzungaria.[1]
References
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- ^ Kałuski, Marian. "Polacy w Chinach: w obecnych granicach (Poles in China: in current borders)". Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-09-22.
- General
- "Zakrzewski Ryszard". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-09-21.
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