Description of the Land of Kamchatka (Krasheninnikov)

Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (Russian: Описание земли Камчатки; Description of the Land of Kamchatka) is an early fundamental text on Siberia of the Russian geographer and explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711–1755) who gave in it the first full description of Kamchatka in the early 18th century. The author was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745. He was Professor of Botany and Natural History at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

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