Grigory Potanin
Deceased Person
1835 – 1920
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Who was Grigory Potanin?
Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian. He was a Victorian-era explorer of Inner Asia, and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. On home soil, Potanin was an author and a political activist who aligned himself with the Siberian separatist movement. The asteroid 9915 Potanin, discovered in 1977, bears his name.
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