# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grigory-potanin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:15:44.023Z

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name: "Grigory Potanin"
slug: "grigory-potanin"
description: "Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Potanin was also an author and a political activist who aligned himself with the Siberian regionalist movement."
tagline: "Russian explorer and orientalist (1835-1920)"
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birthDate: "1835-09-21"
deathDate: "1920-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump