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  Amur Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Amur Cossack Host (Амурское казачье войско in Russian), a Cossack host created in the Amur region and Primorye in the 1850s on the basis of the Cossacks relocated from the Transbaikal region and freed miners of Nerchinsk region.
Then, the Amur Cossack army subordinated to the Governor-General of the Amur region and commander of the armies of the military district of the Amur region (the latter was also the ataman of the Amur and Ussuri Cossack Hosts).
During the Russian Civil War, a significant number of the Amur Cossacks fought on the side of the Soviets.
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 AMUCK - LoveToKnow Article on AMUCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
AMUR (known also as the Sakhalin-ula), a river of eastern Asia, formed by the confluence of the Argun and the Shilka, at Ust-Stryelka, in 53 19' N. lat.
AMUR, a government of East Siberia, stretching from the Stanovoi (Yablonoi) mountains southwards to the left bank of the Amur river.
The Russians are represented by the Amur Cossacks, whose villages, e.g.
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 Cossacks on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Cossacks gave shelter to refugees from Poland and Russia and took part in peasant revolts in Ukraine and Russia in the 17th and 18th cent.
The primary unit of Cossack organization, the village, was largely self-governed until 1918.
Danilovski monastery, guarded by cossacks, is the official residence of the russian church patriarch.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Siberia
In order to give permanence to the conquest of the new territory large numbers of Cossacks and soldiers of the body-guard were constantly dispatched to Siberia; these advanced along the large rivers towards the east and established permanent settlements as props of the Russian supremacy.
Whole caravans of country people and women intended for the Cossacks were sent to Siberia at government expense to promote agriculture and to accustom the Cossacks to a settled mode of life; this was accompanied by concessions in the payment of taxes.
The discovery in 1849 of the estuary of the Amur River by a Russian ship led to a renewed strengthening of the Russian settlements along the Amur; this impulse was powerfully aided by the desire to have a large stretch of coast along an ocean.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13767b.htm   (2357 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Cossacks (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Cossacks (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History) - Encyclopedia
there were 11 Cossack communities, each named for its location : Don, Kuban, Terek, Astrakhan, Ural, Orenburg, Siberia, Semirechensk, Transbaikalia, Amur, and Ussuri.
Following the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), the majority of the Cossacks fought against the Soviet armies in the civil war of 1918–20.
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 Jew Watch - Jewish Occupied Governments - USSR - Jews and Communism
It is impossible that we shall ever know them all.
Stalin told Winston Churchill he liquidated 10 million peasants during the 1930s.
Add mass executions by the Cheka in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; the genocide of three million Muslims in the USSR; massacres of Cossacks and Volga Germans and Soviet industrial genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead.
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