Teacher: In this task, you will be presented with a text and a pronoun. You should write the name that the pronoun refers to. Position of the pronoun in the text is showed within two "_"s.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
He grew up in Evanston, Illinois the second oldest of five children including his brothers, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn. His high school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. MacKenzie studied with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952. _His_ simple, wheel-thrown functional pottery is heavily influenced by the oriental aesthetic of Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. <sep>, Pronoun: His
Solution: MacKenzie
Reason: Based on the text, his refers to MacKenzie.

Now, solve this instance: For his military service he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir and a gold sword. In 1874-1879 he worked with a scientific expedition exploring the Central Asia. In 1885-1886 Karazin travels to India together with Ivan Minaev. He also travelled to Egypt, Italy, Switzerland and many other exotic places. After _his_ retirement from military service, Karazin wrote many adventure and ethnographic stories and novels: ''** ******* *********'' (1875; ''In the Distant Confines,'' tr. Anthony W. Sariti, AuthorHouse, 2007) ''* ********* ****'' (In the gunpowder smoke, 1878) ''* *******'' (In the reeds, 1879) ''Varvara Lepko and her family'' (1879); ''*******'' (Tigress); ''From Orenburg to Tashkent'' (1886); ''Khiva Expedition'' (1882); etc. The Two-Legged Wolf, English translation, 1894, from Archive.org The most popular was his children's book, Cranes Flying South, telling the story of a crane migrating from the Ostashkov swamps to the Upper Nile. <sep>, Pronoun: his
Student:
Karazin