In 2000, a black obelisk was erected in Nikitin's honor at Revdanda, 120 km south of Mumbai, the probable location where he first set foot in India.
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The Indian national newspaper, The Hindu, filed several reports of the expedition's progress.
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He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).
In 1466/73 Afanasy Nikitin made a journey southeast to India and left an interesting account.
The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).
He starred or appeared in more than 31 major films between 1951 and 2000 (with a break between 1987 and 2000), including films such as "Gadfly", "The Forty-first", Khozhdenie za tri morya ("The Journey Beyond Three Seas", also known as "The Traveler"), in which he played Afanasy Nikitin; "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", "Ne podsuden", "Gospodin Velikyi Novgorod", "The Young Peter the Great," "Karl Marxs: The Early Years," and others.
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