The origins of relations between the peoples of Russia and Papua New Guinea are deeply rooted in history and originate from the last third of the 19th century. Back then,…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S RESEARCH AND TRAVELS IN AUSTRALIA
N. Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888) is known worldwide as the explorer of the island of New Guinea, but for a long time the traveler lived in Australia, the fifth continent. On July…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S TRAVELS IN THE JUNGLES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA
Introduction Malaysia is one of the most economically developed Countries in Southeast Asia. The Country is rightfully titled one of the four “New Asian tigers” along with Indonesia, the Philippines…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S TRAVELS TO JAVA, SULAWESI, THE MALUKU ISLANDS, AND WESTERN NEW GUINEA
Introduction Indonesia, a rapidly developing Country in Southeast Asia, is rightfully titled one of the four “New Asian tigers” along with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. It is the…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
As a scientist traveler, N.N. Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) interacted with one of the most famous organizations of Russia — the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (IRGS). Founded in 1845, the Society specialized…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND BIOLOGICAL STATIONS
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay is a world-famous Russian humanist scientist and traveler, whose ideas were far ahead of his time. Nikolay Nikolaevich made a significant contribution to the development of various sciences,…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND THE BATTLE AGAINST SLAVE TRADE
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay made it into world and Russian history as an outstanding scientist, traveler, thinker and public figure. As the Russian scientist wrote: “The only purpose of my life is…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S RESEARCH IN THE CANARY ISLANDS AND MOROCCO
In 1864, after being expelled from St. Petersburg University, N.N. Miklouho-Maclay came to study in Germany, where he immersed himself in the study of zoology and medicine. Medical education provided…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S EXPEDITION TO THE RED SEA
By the summer of 1868, N.N. Miklouho-Maclay finished his studies at the medical faculty of the University of Jena. In those years, in Germany, graduate students of medical faculties had…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S RESEARCH IN WEST MICRONESIA
The outstanding Russian scientist, humanist and traveler N.N. Miklouho-Maclay is known throughout the world as a pioneer of anthropological and ethnographic studies of the indigenous people of the northeastern coast…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S RESEARCH IN POLYNESIA
During the research activity in Oceania, N.N. Miklouho-Maclay visited various parts of Polynesia. In 1871, on his way to New Guinea on the Russian corvette “Vityaz”, Miklouho-Maclay simultaneously conducted research…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY IN THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS FROM THE MACLAY COAST
Introduction N.N. Miklouho-Maclay put himself on record in world and Russian history as an outstanding scientist, traveler, thinker and public figure. During his lifetime, at the end of the 1870s,…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND RUSSIAN NAVIGATORS. THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES IN NEW GUINEA
Russian names for geographical objects discovered by outstanding Russian navigators are found in every corner of our planet, including New Guinea, with which Russia has had strong historical and scientific…
CLOTHING AND ADORNMENTS OF THE MACLAY COAST
Ethnographic studies of the Maclay Coast (the northeastern coast of the island of New Guinea) have long-standing traditions in Russian ethnology. In the second half of the XIX century, the…
LIFE STORY OF N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY (1846-1888)
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay has gone down in the world and national history as an outstanding humanist, scientist, traveler and public figure who always followed the humanistic principles of respect for the…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY IN CHINA
In almost two decades of expeditions to Africa, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and Oceania, the outstanding Russian humanist scientist and traveler N.N. Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) visited China as well. Diaries,…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND THE IMPERIAL FAMILY
An outstanding Russian scientist-humanist and traveler N.N. Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) met a lot of outstanding people from the world of science, politics and culture, but his relationship with the imperial family…
MODERN EVERYDAY LIFE ON THE MACLAY COAST
Nowadays, despite modern technologies, the Maclay Coast (the northeastern coast of New Guinea) remains hardly accessible for Russian and foreign researchers. However in 2017 the Miklouho-Maclay Foundation with scientists of…
ECOLOGY OF THE MACLAY COAST
The nature of the Maclay Coast (Rai Coast or Bereg Maklaya on modern maps) is interesting in many ways. Located at 5° S, this area has features typical to the…
HISTORY OF N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S FAMILY
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay was born on July,17 1846 in the village of Yazykovo-Rozhdestvenskoye, Novgorod Governorate. Not far from this place, in Okulovka, there is a local museum named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay,…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD SCIENCE
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay went down in the world and Russian history as an outstanding humanist scientist, traveler and public figure, who always followed the humanistic principles of respect for cultures and…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY’S TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD (150 SPOTS)
150 SPOTS (yandex)N.N. Miklouho-Maclay can rightly be recognized as a true traveler who conducted research in many places of our planet, including South America, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia),…
N.N. MIKLOUHO-MACLAY AND ASEL TUI: FRIENDSHIP THROUGH THE AGES
The history of expeditions of the outstanding Russian humanist scientist and traveler N.N. Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) to the northeastern coast of New Guinea (the Maclay Coast) is inextricably linked with his…
