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Путешествие в Сибирь / A journey to Siberia in 1890

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2014 · Travel & Events

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Путешествие в Сибирь
Ю.Шокальский 1890г. Вологодская, Пермская, Тобольская, Казанская губернии.

A Journey to Siberia 1890
Yu. Shokalsky 1890 Vologda, Perm, Tobol, Kazan provinces.

Here I present a album of photographs taken in 1890 during an expedition to North-Eastern Siberia made by Yuli Mikhailovich Shokalski (1856-1940). 
His route (as per the photographs) began in Vologda and ended in Kazan, taking in The Ural  Mountains , the city of Ekaterinburg and Perm.

Yuli Mikhailovich Shokalsky  was a Russian geographer, oceanographer and cartographer. A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalski graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1912.  At the Naval School he taught mathematics, navigation and physical geography.At the same time, he developed interest in limnology and meteorology and became the most prolific Russian author on the subjects. In the Marine Miscellanies alone, he published some 300 articles.
He also taught at the Naval Academy in Leningrad University. During this time he was elected as full member of the Russian Geological Society. 
He became Chairman of the Russian Geographical Society from 1917 to 1931.

This is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone age.

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