Sign up
You have successfully registered, a confirmation email has been sent to the email address you provided.
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov
About museum
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian traveler, military geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, and researcher of Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. In childhood he often accompanied his father on trips through the southern provinces of Russia; it was probably then that his passion for travel was born. Pyotr studied at the Alexandrovsky Real School in Smolensk.
After a chance meeting with his fellow countryman N. M. Przhevalsky in 1882, Pyotr Kozlov received an invitation to take part in the 4th Central Asian expedition. For this, Kozlov had to enlist as a volunteer in the army, since N. M. Przhevalsky staffed his expeditions exclusively with military personnel. From 1883 to 1926 Kozlov made six major expeditions to Mongolia, western and northern China, and eastern Tibet, three of which he led personally. In 1907–1909 Kozlov discovered the lost city of Khara-Khoto, after which the explorer's name became world-famous.
During the First World War he served as commandant of the towns of Tarnów and Iași; he was then sent to Mongolia to head a special government expedition engaged in purchasing livestock for the needs of the active army. After the Revolution Kozlov was actively involved in conservation work. From 1917 to 1919 he served as the government commissioner for the protection of the Askania-Nova zoo-reserve in the Kherson steppes in southern Russia. Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov died on the night of 26–27 September 1935 while at a sanatorium in Old Peterhof. He was buried in Leningrad at the Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery.
Date of birth
03 October 1863
Date of death
26 September 1935
Occupation
Researcher