Ryszard Zakrzewski

Ryszard Zakrzewski was a Polish traveler, topographer, and an officer in the Russian Army who lived in the 19th century. Zakrzewski was a member of 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]

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  1. ^ Kałuski, Marian. "Polacy w Chinach: w obecnych granicach (Poles in China: in current borders)" (in Polish). Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska. http://www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index.php?id=pwko39. Retrieved 2007-09-22. 
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