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Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (; October 3, 1863 near Smolensk
Smolensk

Smolensk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative centre of Smolensk Oblast, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler....
 - September 26, 1935, Peterhof
Peterhof

Peterhof is a municipal town within Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland ....
) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky
Nikolai Przhevalsky

Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky , also transliterated Przewalski and Prjevalsky , was a Russian geographer and List of explorers of Central Asia and Eastern Asia....
 in Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 and Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
.

Although prepared by his parents for military career, Kozlov chose to join Przhevalsky's expedition. After his mentor's death, Kozlov continued travelling in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 with his successors, Pevtsov and Roborovsky. In 1895, he took general command of the expedition from ailing Roborovsky.






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Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (; October 3, 1863 near Smolensk
Smolensk

Smolensk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative centre of Smolensk Oblast, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler....
 - September 26, 1935, Peterhof
Peterhof

Peterhof is a municipal town within Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland ....
) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky
Nikolai Przhevalsky

Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky , also transliterated Przewalski and Prjevalsky , was a Russian geographer and List of explorers of Central Asia and Eastern Asia....
 in Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 and Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
.

Although prepared by his parents for military career, Kozlov chose to join Przhevalsky's expedition. After his mentor's death, Kozlov continued travelling in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 with his successors, Pevtsov and Roborovsky. In 1895, he took general command of the expedition from ailing Roborovsky. From 1899 to 1901 he explored and later described in a book the upper reaches of Huang He, Yangtze, and Mekong
Mekong

The Mekong River is one of the world?s major rivers. It is the 12th-longest river in the world, and 7th longest in Asia. . Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of ....
 rivers.

During the first decade of the 20th century, when the Great Game
The Great Game

File:Persia 1814.jpgThe Great Game was a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia....
 reached its peak, Kozlov rivalled Sven Hedin
Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin was a Sweden explorer, geographer and Geopolitics. His achievements include the production of the first detailed maps of vast parts of Pamir, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet, the ancient Silk Road, and the Himalayas....
 and Aurel Stein as the foremost researcher of Xinjiang
Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million sq....
. Although he was on good terms with Hedin and other foreign explorers, the British government, as represented by George Macartney, monitored his movements across Central Asia closely. Kozlov's 1905 visit to the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Lhasa-based Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959....
 in Urga
Urga

Urga may refer to:* Ulan Bator, the capital of the republic of Mongolia* ?rg?, a municipality in Azerbaijan* Urga aka Close to Eden, a film by Nikita Mikhalkov, 1992...
 gave "the British War Office a fright", especially after the Lama declared his intention to "settle within the confines of Russia".

During the expedition of 1907–1909, Kozlov explored the Gobi Desert
Gobi Desert

The Gobi is the largest desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the s...
 and discovered remains of Khara-Khoto
Khara-Khoto

Khara-Khoto is a medieval Tangut city in the Ejin Banner khoshuu of Alxa League, in western Inner Mongolia, near the ancient Juyan Lake. It was first found by Tsogt Badmajapov who conducted primary research....
, a Tangut
Tangut

The Tangut , identified with the state of Western Xia, were a Qiangic languages-speaking people who moved to Northwest China sometime before the 10th century AD....
 city ruined by the Ming Chinese
Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
 in 1372. It took him several years to excavate the site and bring to St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 no less than 2,000 books in Tangut language
Tangut language

Tangut is an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Tangut Empire. By some linguists it is classified as one of the Qiangic languages, among which one also finds Qiang and rGyalrong....
 he uncovered there. Kozlov described his findings in a bulky volume entitled Mongolia and Amdo and the Dead City of Khara-Khoto
Khara-Khoto

Khara-Khoto is a medieval Tangut city in the Ejin Banner khoshuu of Alxa League, in western Inner Mongolia, near the ancient Juyan Lake. It was first found by Tsogt Badmajapov who conducted primary research....
 (1923).

His last expedition to Mongolia and Tibet (1923-1926) resulted in discovery of an unprecedented number of Xiongnu
Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic tribes from Central Asia with a ruling class of unknown origin and other subjugated tribes. They lived on the steppes north of China, and appear in Chinese sources from the 3rd century BC as controlling an empire stretching beyond the borders of modern day Mongolia....
 royal burials at Noin-Ula. After bringing to Petrograd some amazing samples of 2000-year-old Bactria
Bactria

Bactria is a historical region of Greater Iran. Known by the ancient Greeks as "Bactriana" the region is located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ; in later times, the region became known as Tokharistan. The name of the region has survived to present time in the name of Afghan province "Balkh"....
n textiles, Kozlov retired from scientific work and settled in a village near Novgorod.