page_title: Karakol
section_title: Przhevalsky Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Karakol / Sights / Przhevalsky Museum
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Muzeum ruského cestovatele Nikolaje Michajloviče Prževalského v areálu jeho památníku u Pristaně Prževalsk (Issyk-kulská oblast, Kyrgyzstán). English: Museum in the premises of Przhevalsky Memorial near Pristan Przhevalsk dedicated to Russian explorer Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (Issyk Kul Province, Kyrgyzstan). Русский: Музей русского путешественника Николайа Михайловича Пржевальского на участке его мемориала близ села Пристань-Пржевальск (Иссык-Кульская область, Киргизия).
context_page_description: Karakol is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan–China border and 380 kilometres from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres and its resident population was 66,294 in 2009. To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
context_section_description: Nikolay Przhevalsky was one of the first Russian Scientist-Geographer to start detailed studies of the geography, flora and fauna of the Central Asian countries. Beginning from 1870, he arranged four large expeditions to Mongolia, China and Tibet. During his expeditions he revealed the exact directions of the mountain ranges and borders of the Tibet Mountains. He described the nature, relief, climate, flora and fauna in the territories under his study and discovered over 200 plant species. Przhevalsky also collected an enormous zoological collection which comprised several thousand species of plants, animals, birds, fishes and insects. In the year of 1888, he died from typhoid fever on the eve of his fifth expedition to Central Asia; he was buried on the Issyk-Kul lakeside not far from the city of Karakol. The Memorial Museum of N. M. Przhevalsky was opened on 29 April 1957 in Karakol.
caption: Przhevalsky museum
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