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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Tomsk State University alumni, Tomsk State University faculty, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Edison Denisov, National Research Tomsk State University, Dmitri Ivanenko, Hans Johansen, Nikolay Semyonov, Theodor Molien, Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Vadim G. Vizing, Nikolay Baranskiy, Nikolay Burdenko, Arseny Sokolov, Vera Nebolsina, Yury Yershov, Abram Ilyich Fet, Peter Bogaevsky, Sergey Psakhie, Victor Andreevich Toponogov, Grigory Abramovich Shajn, Viktor Panin, Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgussaar, Vladimir Yevseyevich Zuev, George Grebenstchikoff, Viktor Pepelyayev, Nikolai Golushko, Lev Karakhan, Hermann Johansen, Gennadiy Prashkevich, Yury Zakharov, Gennady Mesyats, Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko, Yuli Burkin, Mark Azadovsky. Excerpt: Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski (born May 27, 1876, Ludza (Polish: ), Russia, now Latvia - January 3, 1945, o win) was a Polish writer, journalist, traveler, globetrotter, explorer and university professor. He is best known for his novels on Lenin and the Russian Civil War, a war in which he took part. Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski was born May 27, 1876, on his family's manor near Ludza in the Vitebsk gubernate. He studied at the famous gymnasium in Kamieniec Podolski, but he moved with his father, a renowned doctor, to Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from a Russian-language school. Then he joined the mathematical-physical faculty of the local university, where he studied chemistry. As an assistant to professor Aleksander Zalewski, he traveled to many distant areas, including Siberia, the Caucasus and the Altay Mountains. During the summer he was frequently enrolled as a ship's writer on the Odessa-Vladivostok line, a job that allowed him to visit many parts of Asia, including Japan, Sumatra, China, Malaya and Indonesia. For his description of his trip to Crimea and Constantinople he ...
