- Aleksander Czekanowski
Aleksander Czekanowski (1833-1876) was a Polish
geologist andexplorer ofSiberia .He took part in the
January Uprising (1863); in the aftermath he was exiled to Siberia by the Russian authorities; where he took part in and later led several expeditions. In 1870 he received a gold medal from theRussian Geographical Society .His name was given to a mountain range in Siberia, the Czekanowski Mountain Range (rus "Чекановского Кряж").
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