Ryszard Zakrzewski was a Polish traveller,

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, and an officer in the

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who lived in the 19th century. Zakrzewski was a member of the

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. He was an author of

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works and focused his research on the Altay,

Dzungaria Dzungaria (; from the Mongolian words , meaning 'left hand') is a geographical subregion in Northwest China that corresponds to the northern half of Xinjiang. It is thus also known as Beijiang, which means "Northern Xinjiang". Bounded by the A ...

, and

Semirechye Zhetysu, or Jeti-Suu ( kk, , Жетісу, pronounced ; ky, ''Jeti-Suu'', (), meaning "seven rivers"; also transcribed ''Zhetisu'', ''Jetisuw'', ''Jetysu'', ''Jeti-su'', ''Jity-su'', ''Жетысу'',, United States National Geospatial-I ...

regions. In 1886, he headed a geographic expedition responsible for surveying the northwestern territories in China known as Dzungaria.

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