Gombojab Tsybikov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gombojab Tsybikov

Russian explorer of Tibet

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1873

Place of Birth: Transbaikal, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1930

Profession: politician, ethnologist, explorer, philologist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gombojab Tsybikov (Russian: ???????? ????????? ??????? Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov; Mongolian: ???????? ????????, 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. Tsybikov is mostly credited for being the first photographer of Tibet, 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.