1).
1. The territory of the Russian Empire reached its largest scale in 1880-s.
2. The territory of the Russian Empire extended from Poland and Finland on the West till Sakhalin on the East and from the North sea till the Black sea on the South.
3. The first Russian settlements were stated on the north of the Amur river.
4. The territory of Russia increased for 60 000 square kilometers.
5. Vladivostok became the main port of Russia in the Pacific Ocean .
6. The Empire extended almost till the boundaries of Afghanistan in Central Asia.
2)
1. Nicholay Mikhailovich Prjevalskiy spent eleven years of his life in traveling. He made four expeditions to Eastern and Central Asia.
2. During his first expedition he went to Irkutsk in Central Siberia.
3. Then Nickolay Mikhailovich traveled to the region of the Lake Baikal.
4. Prjevalskiy researched the territory of Mongolia and the Goby.
5. He reached China, the region not far from Pecking in 1873.
6. Nickolay Mikhailovich tried to visit Tibet thrice unsuccessfully.
7. He crossed the Goby again and visited one of the greatest mountainous lakes of the world - the Lake Issik - Kull.
un 2.
text 1.
1. David Livingston was a missionary and an explore.
2. His aims were to preach a Christian religion and find a mouth of a river - the Nile.
3. He also tried to put an end to a slave trading.