Qitai (Guchung)

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  Вадим (guest)

  Here in 1877 with great difficulty from Kuldja got through the desert Russian traveler and explorer Nikolai Przhivalsky and his expedition on their way to Tibet. However, due to illness, he was forced to return to Zaysan for treatment. Thus, spending 4 months, he made ​​a detour of almost 3,000 km. Later, in Zaysan, he postponed his trip for a year because of aggravated political tensions between Russia and China because of which "the Chinese might just strangle us." From his excellent book "Journey to the Lop Nor and Tibet".

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  Вадим (guest)

  I should add that this failure cost him and the Russian treasury of 30,000 rubles (about a million dollars today).

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