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Gombojab Tsybikov | |
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 Gombojab Tsybikov in a 1900 portrait | |
| Born | Gombojab Tsebekovich Tsybikov 20 April 1873 Urda-Aga, Transbaikal Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 September 1930 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | Buryat |
| Occupation(s) | Russian explorer of Tibet, social anthropologist, photographer, educator, statesman |
Gombojab Tsybikov (Russian: Гомбожаб Цэбекович Цыбиков Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov; Buryat: Цэбэгэй Гомбожаб, Mongolian: Цэвэгийн Гомбожав, alternatively romanized as Gombozhab and Tsybikoff; 20 April 1873 – 20 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of Tibet from 1899 to 1902. Tsybikov specialized in ethnography, Buddhist Studies, and after 1917 was an important educator and statesman in Siberia and Mongolia.[1]
Tsybikov is mostly credited for being the first photographer of Tibet,[2] including Lhasa. His travelogue, issued in Russian in 1919, 1981, and 1991, and translated into several languages (Chinese, Czech, English, French, and Polish), included a lot of materials from Tibetan sources on Tibetan history and first-hand accounts on Tibetan affairs of the time, making it an important reference source.
- ^ Harris, C. (2016). Photography and Tibet. Exposures. Reaktion Books. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-78023-699-5. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "A Pilgrim of Special Assignment". Russian Geographical Society. 20 April 2018.