Grigory Potanin
Russian explorer and orientalist
- Lived
- 1835–1920
- Country
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Updated September 2026
About Grigory Potanin
Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Potanin was also an author and a political activist who aligned himself with the Siberian regionalist movement.
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