Nikolai Albov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolai Albov

Russian botanist

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1866

Place of Birth: Pavlovo, Russia

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1897

Profession: geographer, botanist, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ??????; 15 October 1866, in Pavlovo, Gorbatov region, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Imperial Russia – 6 December 1897, in La Plata, Argentina) was a Russian botanist and geographer.
He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America.
He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora.The standard author abbreviation Albov is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.