The Yard of the Pottery Workshop in Yangishar

The Mannerheim Asian Expedition is a reconnaissance expedition to the north and west of the Qing Empire, organized by the Russian General Staff and carried out by Colonel of the Russian Army Baron Gustav Mannerheim, from March 1906 to December 1908. At the end of June 1906, Gustav Mannerheim, with 490 kg of luggage, including a Kodak camera and two thousand glass photographic plates with chemical reagents for their processing, left St. Petersburg by train. Carl Gustav Mannerheim visited the territory on his way to China and took a number of unique pictures.