Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Миклу́хо-Макла́й; [1] 17 [O.S. 5] July 1846 – 14 [O.S. 2] April 1888) was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin.

N.N. Miklouho-Maclay has gone down in the world and national history as an outstanding humanist, scientist, traveler and public figure who always followed the humanistic principles of respect for the culture and traditions of the peoples of the world, and fought for the rights of residents of Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Miklouho-Maclay Foundation has produced a number of documentary films about N.N. Miklouho-Maclay, Papua New Guinea and Russian explorers of Oceania. They are successfully broadcast on Russian TV...

Nikolay Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay (1846 – 1888) – an outstanding Russian humanist scientist, traveler and progressive social activist, who explored the peoples of Oceania, Australia and Southeast Asia.

Back then, in the 1870s and 1880s, the expeditions of the outstanding Russian scientist and traveler Nikolay Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) took place on the northeastern coast of New Guinea (nowadays the Maclay Coast or Rai Coast, Madang Province), which became an important milestone in science and the history of friendly relations between the peo...

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Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai (generally referred to in Australia as Nicholas Mikluho-Maclay), explorer, anthropologist, marine biologist and humanitarian, was one of Watsons Bay’s most remarkable residents. Although he died in 1888, his imprint on the community of Watsons Bay is still strongly evident.

Maclay Coast (Rai Coast) expedition – Фонд им. Миклухо-Маклая. The first scientific research expedition in contemporary Russian history on the trail of the famous explorer and scientist-humanist, Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay, took place on September 13-25, 2017 in Papua New Guinea. Today it has gone down in history.

Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world’s most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, Marquesan art is nevertheless poorly understood, and the formation of collections still largely unresearched.

In the autumn of 1869 Maclay submitted to the Council of the Russian Geographic Society a project for an expedition to the Pacific beginning with its Northern seas and planned for many years. The project envisaged mainly zoological investigations, while anthropological studies were to be pursued only in the time free from his specific tasks.