<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This article is devoted to the history of Russian hypsometric and geographic investigations of the northern part of China, Mongolia, Manchuria, the Amur and the Ussuri region in the 19th century. The article is based on the analysis of numerous sources from the Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Russian National Library, the Library of the Shanghai Zikawei Observatory. The article’s methodological framework is objectivity concept, systematically of scientific analysis of archival materials.The considerable attention is paid to H. Fritsche’s, Palladius’s, N.M. Przhevalsky’s and other expeditions. The detailed analysis of a new systematic mapping of the northern part of China, made by the Russian scientists is given. The role of the Beijing Magneto-meteorological observatory in Beijing, as the part of the Russian Academy of sciences, is specially noted. The author considers in details the political and socio-economic conditions of expeditions.</abstract>

This article is devoted to the history of Russian hypsometric and geographic investigations of the northern part of China, Mongolia, Manchuria, the Amur and the Ussuri region in the 19th century. The article is based on the analysis of numerous sources from the Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Russian National Library, the Library of the Shanghai Zikawei Observatory. The article’s methodological framework is objectivity concept, systematically of scientific analysis of archival materials.The considerable attention is paid to H. Fritsche’s, Palladius’s, N.M. Przhevalsky’s and other expeditions. The detailed analysis of a new systematic mapping of the northern part of China, made by the Russian scientists is given. The role of the Beijing Magneto-meteorological observatory in Beijing, as the part of the Russian Academy of sciences, is specially noted. The author considers in details the political and socio-economic conditions of expeditions.

The known unknown land. The history of study of north China in the XIXth century

Miscellanea Geographica

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The known unknown land. The history of study of north China in the XIX century

This article is devoted to the history of Russian hypsometric and geographic investigations of the northern part of China, Mongolia, Manchuria, the Amur and...

The known unknown land. The history of study of north China in the XIX^th century

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 125 - 130

Received: Nov 10, 2018

Accepted: Feb 26, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0013

Keywords
North China, Russian Academy of Science, Beijing

© 2019 Tatiana Yurievna Feklova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The known unknown land. The history of study of north China in the XIXth century

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 125 - 130

Received: Nov 10, 2018

Accepted: Feb 26, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0013

KeywordsNorth China, Russian Academy of Science, Beijing

© 2019 Tatiana Yurievna Feklova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The known unknown land. The history of study of north China in the XIX^th century

Keywords
North China, Russian Academy of Science, Beijing