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Cossacks first became widely known in western Europe in the mid-17th century as a result of the great revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Zaporozhians against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Ukraine, which shook the geopolitical foundations of eastern Europe.
Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
Cossack ambitions to be recognised as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed, and plans for transforming the Polish-Lithuanian Two-Nations Commonwealth into Three Nations (with the Ruthenian Cossack people) made little progress due to the Cossacks' unpopularity.
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 Cossacks - Information at Halfvalue.com
Cossacks first became widely known in western Europe in the mid-seventeenth century as a result of the great revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Zaporozhians against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which shook the geopolitical foundations of eastern Europe.
In the fifteenth century, the Cossack society was described as a loose federation of independent communities, often forming local armies, entirely separate from the neighbouring states (of, e.g, Poland, Grand Duchy of Moscow or the Khanate of Crimea).
Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the sixteenth century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
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 Baikal Cossacks - Definition, explanation
Baikal Cossacks were cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайкальское казачье войско), a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond Lake Baikal (hence, Transbaikal).
The Transbaikal Cossack Host partially consisted of Siberian Cossaks, Buryats, Evenkian (Tungus) military units and peasant population of some of the regions.
The Transbaikal Cossack Army is known to have participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1899-1901, Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and World War I.
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In near proximity to Ulan-Ude is Lake Baikal, the world-famous deep inland lake.
The Baikal water contains small amounts of dissolved and suspended substances, that is why, its transparency exceeds all lacustrine waterbodies in the world and is almost equal to transparency of ocean waters.
It seems that Baikal is a world miracle, as it is the oldest lake in the world and has drinkable water.
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Cossacks first became widely known in western Europe in the mid-17th century as a result of the great revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Zaporozhians against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Ukraine, which shook the geopolitical foundations of eastern Europe.
Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
Cossack ambitions to be recognised as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed, and plans for transforming the Polish-Lithuanian Two-Nations Commonwealth into Three Nations (with the Ruthenian Cossack people) made little progress due to the Cossacks' unpopularity.
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  Baikal Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baikal Cossacks were cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайка́льское каза́чье во́йско), a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond Lake Baikal (hence, Transbaikal).
The Transbaikal Cossack Host partially consisted of Siberian Cossaks, Buryats, Evenk (Tungus) military units, and peasant population of some of the regions.
The Transbaikal Cossack Army is known to have participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1899-1901, Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and World War I.
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 History of the Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cossack attempts to be recognized as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed and plans for transforming the Two-Nations Commonwealth (Polish-Lithuanian) into Three Nations (with Cossacks/Ruthenian people) were limited to a small minority of forward-thinking men, although the Zaporozhian Host was formally recognized as a nation in 1649.
In the Russian Empire the Cossacks constituted 11 separate Cossack voiskos, settled along the frontiers: the Don Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Astrakhan Cossacks, Ural Cossacks, Orenburg Cossacks, Siberian Cossacks, Semiryechensk Cossacks, Baikal Cossacks, Amur Cossacks, and Ussuri Cossacks.
Cossacks on active service were divided into three equal parts according to age, and only the first third (approximately age 18-26) normally performed active service, while the rest effectively functioned as reserves, based at home but bound to march out at short notice.
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 Forums at the Society - Cossacks in the Russian Revolution.
Nevertheless, there was never a stigma attached for a prominent cossack to serve in the enlisted ranks and very nearly all of them did in their youth.
By the end of the 19th century there were Cossack military schools and Cossack sections of the prominent military schools.
In both Cossack and Regular regiments (aside from the Guards) the bulk of officers probably came from what we would call the "Professional" classes - sons of Doctors, Lawyers, Civil Servants, the sons of Orthadox clergy and of course, older officers.
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 Transbaikalia - LoveToKnow 1911
Beginning at Lake Baikal, a valley, deep and broad, penetrates the north-western border-ridge of the plateau, and runs eastward up the river Uda, with an imperceptible gradient, like a gigantic railway cutting enclosed between two steep slopes, and it sends another branch south towards Kiakhta.
The Shilka is;formed by the union of the Onon and the Chita rivers, and is navigable from the town of Chita, thus being an important channel to the Amur.
Transbaikalia is crossed by the Trans-siberian railway from Mysovaya on Lake Baikal, via Chita, to Stryetensk, and from Kaidalovo, near Chita, to the Mongolian frontier; the latter section is continued across Manchuria to Vladivostok and Port Arthur.
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The Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century, with Commonwealth dominance extending south, the Zaporoijan Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded as subjects of the Commonwealth.
The Cossack attempts to be recognized as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed and plans for transforming the Two-Nations Commonwealth (Polish-Lithuanian) into Three Nations (with Cossacks/Ruthenian people) were limited to a small minority of forward-thinking men, although the Zaporozhian Host was formally recognized as a nation in 1649.
Cossacks on active service were divided into three equal parts according to age, and only the first third (approximately age 18-26) normally performed active service, while the rest effectively functioned as reserves, based at home but bound to march out at short notice.
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 Cossacks - Information from Reference.com
Cossacks first became widely known in western Europe in the mid-17th century as a result of the great revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Zaporozhians against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Ukraine, which shook the geopolitical foundations of eastern Europe.
Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
Cossack ambitions to be recognised as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed, and plans for transforming the Polish-Lithuanian Two-Nations Commonwealth into Three Nations (with the Ruthenian Cossack people) made little progress due to the Cossacks' unpopularity.
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 Research of the Baikal
Interesting information about Baikal was left by Nikolai G. Spafarii, an ambassador of the Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich to the oriental countries (1675-1678), and in 1701 a book of drawings of Baikal appeared, compiled by Semen Remezov, which featured the Siberia of the seventeenth century as completely as was possible at that time.
On the drawing "The Baikal Sea" the shapes of Baikal almost matched the real ones, and 40 tributaries were marked, as well as day travels and distances for day travels by sail.
In 1916, under the Presidium of the Russian Academy, on the initiative of N. Nasonov's, an academician, the Baikal Commission was formed for the comprehensive studies of Baikal.
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 Cossacks history
Cossacks were proud of their arms, often passed from grandfather to father, and from father to son, and of their horses.
These Cossacks were different in their appearance, facial characteristics, and even in the uniforms they wore; but in the main they were the same; they cherishrd theier free and easy way of life; they knew that they were born for war; they were proud to be Cossacks.
Those Cossacks who had remained in Russia after their defeat in 1920, the families, the kin of those few who had managed to escape, and all those who had been in the ranks and whose regiments were cut off from the ports of embarkation, had to live under the stiff yoke of their conquerors.
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 Baikal Web World - Travel by Trans Siberian Railway
The Circum Baikal Loop was completed in 1904 at a cost of 70 million rubles.
Much of the port Baikal to Kultuk section is still operational and can be visited by boat from Listvyanka.
At present it is territory of the Baikal National Park.
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 Russian Civil War - Wikipedia
Lenin was surprised by the outbreak of the Civil War and initially under-estimated the extent of the forces that rose against his new country, early successes in the Don region made him over-confident.
The initial group that stood against the Communists from the start were mainly counter-revolutionary generals and local Cossack armies that had declared their loyalty to the Provisional Government - prominent were Kaledin (Don Cossacks), Dutov (Orenburg Cossacks), and Semenov (Baikal Cossacks).
However the Cossacks were unwilling to fight, and when the Soviet counter-offensive began in January under Antonov-Ovseenko the Cossacks quickly deserted Kaledin, who committed suicide.
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Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
Cossack ambitions to be recognized as equal to szlachta were constantly rebuffed, and plans for transforming the Two-Nations Commonwealth (Polish-Lithuanian) into Three Nations (with the Cossack and Ruthenian people) were limited to a small minority.
Cossacks attempts to get recognized as equal to szlachta were constantly rebuffed and plans for transforming the Two-Nations Commonwealth (Polish-Lithuanian) into Three Nations (with Cossacks/Ruthenian people) were limited to a small minority of forward-thinking men, although the Zaporozhian Host was formally recognized as a nation in 1649.
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 Research of the Baikal
The Russians came to Baikal in the summer of 1643, headed by a Tobolsk Cossack, Kurbat Ivanov, who had gathered 75 'hunting, serving and idling people' and came out to the lake at the Maloye (Small) Sea region.
Interesting information about Baikal was left by Nikolai G. Spafarii, an ambassador of the Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich to the oriental countries (1675-1678), and in 1701 a book of drawings of Baikal appeared, compiled by Semen Remezov, which featured the Siberia of the seventeenth century as completely as was possible at that time.
On the drawing "The Baikal Sea" the shapes of Baikal almost matched the real ones, and 40 tributaries were marked, as well as day travels and distances for day travels by sail.
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 Irkutsk & Baikal
It is not far from Lake Baikal, down the Angara river, where a Cossack detachment headed by Yakov Pokhabov founded in 1661 a log ostrog (fort), the heart of the city.
Baikal is inhabited by 52 fish species belonging to 12 families, from Baikal sturgeon to golomyanka (Baikal oil fish).
The transparency of Baikal water is miraculous - you see stones on the lake bottom and it is hard to believe there are some 20 to 30 meters of depth under the keel.
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 Northern Baikal area - Historic background of the area          
By the time when the Russian Cossacks arrived at Lake Baikal the Tungusy were represented by a multitude of tribes, living together closely in these regions, but as yet not as a united people.
The Cossacks also discovered that there are silver and lead ores at the river Shilka and that "the locals ploughed their land and sowed wheat, rye, and barley".
The armed forces of Russian Cossacks went into the depth of Siberia with the main objective to naturalize the indigenous people of the area and collect the fur tax, which was the main proof of this naturalization.
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 SFU Museum: Russian Traditional Village Life
Cossacks were known as servants of the state or, in Russian-- Sluzhilyye Lyudi.
The Cossacks, a translation of the Russian word 'kazak', are obscure in origin but served as agents of the Russian empire.
Cossack buildings include the estate of a wealthy Cossack atamari or chieftain, his main house, stables and storehouses etc. Shown here is a traditional Cossack carved wooden gate.
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 Baikal Cossacks Information
Baikal Cossacks were cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайкальское казачье войско), a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond Lake Baikal (hence, Transbaikal).
The Transbaikal Cossack Host partially consisted of Siberian Cossaks, Buryats, Evenkian (Tungus) military units and peasant population of some of the regions.
The Transbaikal Cossack Army is known to have participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1899-1901, Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and World War I.
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 SRAS Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Concepts
The first Cossack companies were formed in the 15th cent., when Ukraine, then part of the unified Polish-Lithuanian state, took independent measures to defend itself against the devastating Tatar raids.
He continued to lead a Cossack regiment and scored military victories against the Turks and Tartars, and for the French as a mercenary in the battle of Dunkirk.
The Cossack Yermak took the city of Sibir in 1581, thus marking the start of Moscow's conquest of what is now Siberia.
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 Northern Baikal area - Historic background of the area          
By the time when the Russian Cossacks arrived at Lake Baikal the Tungusy were represented by a multitude of tribes, living together closely in these regions, but as yet not as a united people.
The Cossacks also discovered that there are silver and lead ores at the river Shilka and that "the locals ploughed their land and sowed wheat, rye, and barley".
The armed forces of Russian Cossacks went into the depth of Siberia with the main objective to naturalize the indigenous people of the area and collect the fur tax, which was the main proof of this naturalization.
www.sbaikal.ru /eng/region/history.html   (1131 words)

  
 Global Ramble Lake Baikal
Father Baikal's anger is manifested in the sarma, kultuk or barguzin, hurricane winds that whip waves four to six meters (12-18ft) high.
Legend has it that Angara, Baikal's daughter, once tricked her wards in the middle of the night to run away with her beloved, Yenisey.
The fishing in Lake Baikal is reputed to be superb and fishing trips can be arranged from the town of Listvyanka near the mouth of the Angara.
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 Travel company 'In the world of fantasy' - Baikal - Baikal and Pribaikalie | Buryatia Republic
In obedience to mongolian legends, Borta-chino and Goamaral, which, swimming across inwardly sea of Tangis (Baikal), settled in the valley of Onot and gave beginning to the "gold" sort of bordzhigin were the ancestors of kernel of mongolian people.
Baikal ringed seal is unique representative of mammals on Baikal is seal or ringed seal baikalsky.
Baikal sturgeon - constantly dwells in Baikal and to the rivers related mainly in the period of reproduction.
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 Cossacks
Cossacks for their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the sixteenth century, with the dominance of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their subjects.
Cossack ambitions to be recognised as equal to the szlachta were constantly rebuffed, and plans for transforming the Polish-Lithuanian Two-Nations Commonwealth into Three Nations (with the Ruthenian Cossack people) made little progress due to the Cossack's unpopularity.
The divisions of the Cossacks within was clearly visible between those that chose to stay loyal to the Russian Monarch and continue the service (who later moved to the Kuban) and those that chose to continue their pro-mercenary role and ran off the Danube delta.
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