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A traveler, writer, diplomat, and orientalist, Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky participated in many military and reconnaissance expeditions. He was invited by the Egyptian viceroy to conduct geological research in northeastern Africa. He was one of the first to pinpoint the correct geographical location of the source of the White Nile, a finding confirmed much later. He was the first in the Russian geographical tradition to provide a detailed description of Abyssinia. He accompanied the Russian ecclesiastical mission to China and concluded the Treaty of Kuldzha with China, which facilitated the expansion of Russian influence in the Trans-Ili region. He headed the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as assistant to the chairman of the Imperial Geographical Society.
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