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Arsenyev (Àðñåíüåâ) Vladimir Klavdiyevich
(1872—1930)
Vladimir Arsenyev was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books, telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native trapper, from 1902 to 1907. He was the first to describe numerous species of Siberian flora.
Arsenyev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was a former serf who had risen to become the chief of the Moscow District Railway. After a military education, Arsenyev began his expeditions to the forests of the Far East. He lived in the Vladivostok through the years of the Russian Civil War and even was a Commissar on Ethnic Minorities (Komisar po delam inrodcheskim) of the independent Far Eastern Republic. After the Far Eastern Republic was absorbed by Soviet Russia in 1922 Arsenyev refused the proposals to emigrate and stays in Vladivostok.
Arsenyev died at the age of 57 in 1930. His widow, Margarita Nikolaevna Arsenyeva was arrested in 1934 and again in 1937 after being accused of being a member of an underground organization of spies and saboteurs allegedly headed by her late husband. The military court hearings of the case (21 August 1938) took only ten minutes and sentenced her to death. She was executed immediately. Aresenyev's daughter Natalya also was arrested in April 1941 and sentenced to GULAG.
He is most famous for authoring many books about his explorations, including some sixty works on the geography, wildlife and ethnography of the regions he traveled. Arsenyev's most famous book, «Dersu Uzala» («Dersu the Trapper», 1923), is the author's memoirs of three expeditions in the Ussurian taiga, or forest, of Northern Asia along the Sea of Japan and North to Vladivostok. The book is named for Arsenyev's guide, an Ussurian native of the Nanai/Goldi tribe. The book attracted the attention of the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who released the film version, «Dersu Uzala», in 1975. The third book of the trilogy «In the Sikhote-Alin mountains» was published posthumously, only in 1937.
Arsenyev’s family home in Vladivostok has been made into a museum. Arsenyev, a town located in Primorsky Krai, was named after him.
San-Marino, 2010, «Ran», «Dersu Uzala»
USSR, 1956, Vladimir Arsenyev, «Dersu Uzala»
USSR, 1972.09.10, 
Khabarovsk. Birth Centenary of Arseniev
USSR, 1972.09.10, Vladivostock. Birth Centenary of Arseniev
USSR, 1972, 
Vladimir Arsenyev
USSR, 1973, Arsenyev Monument in Khabarovsk
USSR, 1988.01.07, 
Arseniev monument in Arseniev
