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  Russian Far East. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Russian Far East is bounded on the NW by the Taymyr and Evenki Autonomous areas, on the N by the East Siberian Sea, on the NE by the Bering Sea, on the SE by the Sea of Japan, on the S by China (Manchuria), and on the SW by the Yablonovy Mts.
Arctic tundra covers the far north of the region, and forest taiga occupies the central section.
However, the Japanese remained, and in 1920 the Far Eastern Republic was formed as a buffer state between Japan and the Soviet Union.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for eastern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Orthodox Eastern Church community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe.
Eastern Michigan University mainly at Ypsilanti, Mich.; coeducational; founded 1849 as a normal school, became Eastern Michigan College in 1956, gained university status in 1959.
Eastern Question term designating the problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cent.
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 Far Eastern Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The reunion of the Far Eastern Republic was short-lived, as its government asked to be admitted to the RSFSR soon after.
On 15 November 1922 the Far Eastern Republic was absorbed by Soviet Russia.
The frontiers of the Far Eastern Republic followed the western coastline of Lake Baikal along the nortern borders of Mongolia and China (similar to the Amur-Primorsky Krai-Manchuria frontier lines) and reached the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Far_Eastern_Republic   (840 words)

  
 Far Eastern Republic - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eastern Europe and the republics of the former U.S.S.R. (recent economic developments)
Tele Atlas extends presence in Eastern Europe; Tele Atlas signs major cooperation deals with CEDA in the Slovak Republic and with Top-Map in Hungary.
Security Council authorizes emergency force in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to assist UN mission during reinforecement, transition.
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 Footnotes to History- D to F
Don, Republic of the- In May 1917, the Cossacks of the Don region declared themselves autonomous, electing the Tsarist general Alexei Kaledin as Ataman, the head of government.
Faeroe Islands, Republic of the- Inspired by Iceland's declaration of independence in 1944, the North Sea archipelago of the Faeroe Islands seceded from Denmark in September of 1946.
The Far Eastern Republic was founded at Blagovechensk in eastern Siberia on April 6, 1920, soon after the execution of the White ruler Kolchak.
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 Far Eastern USSR - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Far Eastern USSR, former region that, until 1991, comprised the north-eastern coastal areas of Asia, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on...
The most far-reaching changes, however, were in Soviet policy towards the other countries of Eastern Europe, which had been under Soviet domination...
During its first year as a Republic, India figured increasingly in international affairs, especially in UN deliberations and activities.
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 AllRefer.com - Vladivostok (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It is the chief Russian port on the Pacific (kept open in winter by icebreakers), the terminus of the Trans-Siberian RR and the Northern Sea Route, the chief base of the Russian navy in the Pacific, and a base for fishing and whaling fleets.
By 1920, when Vladivostok was included in the newly proclaimed Far Eastern Republic, the Japanese continued to occupy the region and installed a counterrevolutionary Russian puppet government.
Among its many educational institutions are the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Far Eastern Univ. (reopened 1956).
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 Khabarovsk-Online. Investment Proposal, Construction01
In April 1920 there was established an independent Far Eastern Republic with capital in Verkhne-Udinsk (Chita), which covered all eastward of the Lake Baikal territories.
The bulk of Far Eastern industries were built for military purposes and over 80% of consumer goods and products were delivered from central Russia.
The population of the Russian Far East and Khabarovsk Krai was formed by the mixture of settlers from other regions of Russia and much influenced by historic events.
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 The Samovar - The Rossica Society Forum
The attached is a registered cover postmarked Vladivostok 16 Nov 1920 with receiving postmarks on the back from Terminal Station, Seattle, Washington, 12 Dec 1920, and the Registry Division, New York, New York, 18 Dec 1920.
Although the Far Eastern Republic was established in April, 1920, I don’t think the Provisional Zemstvo Government of Vladivostok joined until Dec 1920.
The Vladivostok area joined formally the FER at the beginning of November 1920 and the Zemstvo Council Government retired in December.
www.rossica.org /Samovar/viewthread.php?tid=1264   (306 words)

  
 Second World War (1940-1944)
The German wars conducted in eastern Europe against Poland and Russia, and against the League of Nations elsewhere in Europe, though, were notoriously bloody.
The Greater German offensive was poorly planned -- the dictates of the Eastern Front kept the German army from transferring its experienced troops to the western invasions, while the post-assassination purges of the German officer corps left it incapable of the disciplined attacks that marked the German invasions of eastern Europe.
By far the bloodiest of the theatres was in eastern Europe, where more than 15 million soldiers and 36 million civilians -- the vast majority Soviet and Polish died in four years of warfare and genocide.
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 Question of Union of Independent National Republics
    The supreme organs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are: the Union Central Executive Committee, to be elected by the constituent republics of the Union with representation in proportion to population; and the Union Council of People's Commissars, to be elected by the Union Central Executive Committee, as its executive organ.
The Far Eastern Republic included the Pribaikal, the Transbaikal, the Amur Region, and the Maritime Province, Kamchatka, and the northern part of Sakhalin.
The Transcaucasian Federation -- the Federative Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia, was founded on March 12, 1922, at a plenipotentiary conference of representatives of the Central Executive Committees of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
www.marx2mao.com /Stalin/QUNR22.html   (1296 words)

  
 Federalism in Russia: How Is It Working?
Wealth in Russia is geographically concentrated in Moscow, Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhniy Novgorod, and the poverty is concentrated in the peripheral regions of the east and the south.
The Russian military districts (Far Eastern Army, Far Eastern Border Guards, and Far Eastern National Guards) and the Russian Pacific Navy have not received federal funds since last June and are in a disastrous situation.
Already by this time in the eastern regions, from Chita to Vladivostok, who were suffering from social-economic devastation and poverty, Moscow was considered to be the major enemy; a large part of the local people dreamed to be rid of the "weak, greedy, corrupt and criminal" Moscow.
www.fas.org /irp/nic/federalism_in_russia.htm   (19402 words)

  
 Far Eastern Republic — Infoplease.com
353,000), capital of the Buryat Republic, SE Siberian Russia, on the...
Russian Far East: History - History Russian colonization of the area began in the late 16th cent., when Cossacks built forts...
Metalcasting in the Czech Republic: After 40 years as victim of communist experimentation, the foundry industry in this Eastern European......
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 LINNS.COM: The website of the world's largest weekly stamp newspaper-Linn's Stamp News
The Far Eastern Republic, comprising eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to the Pacific Ocean, was formed on April 6, 1920, to act as a buffer between the Soviet Union and Japan.
Japanese forces were forced to withdraw from Vladivostock in November 1922, and soon thereafter the Far Eastern Republic joined the Soviet Union.
In 1939, Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union and, in 1940, was compelled to cede extensive eastern territories to the Soviets.
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 Republic Q&A - PC News at GameSpot
GS: Another of Republic's distinct features is its use of huge, clockwork cities populated by citizens with regular daily routines, similar to the Grand Theft Auto series.
GS: Republic's intriguing premise has caught the attention of many of our readers, but several of them are concerned about the game's future, especially considering the fact that Elixir Studios is already working on a completely different project, Evil Genius, for a completely different publisher.
The core systems were actually tested internally in a multiplayer test bed, but unfortunately, we could not include multiplayer with the initial release, as it would have involved a ton more development and testing time.
www.gamespot.com /pc/strategy/republictherevolution/news_6073781.html   (1201 words)

  
 Nomads of the Steppe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Qutb ad-Din Aibeg, founder of the Delhi sultanate, was a Cuman; redeemed from slavery by Afghan shakh Mahmud Ghuri, he became his governor in Delhi and proclaimed independence after the death of his patron.
They were settled as federate troups as far away as Britain and Gaul, where they introduced heavy cavalry and the use of coordinated lancer charges.
The Eastern Gök Empire was a crazy-quilt mixture of peoples and religions, and was often in conflict with the Western branch.
www.hostkingdom.net /siberia.html   (7937 words)

  
 Visiting Vladivostok by Karl Schlögel - The Globalist > > Global History
Located in the country’s Far East, it is the final stop on the famed Trans-Siberian Railway.
So far, indeed, that one doubts whether he really continues to wield any power.
The Golden Cape — a sort of eastern Bosporus and counterpart to the original Dardanelles — is the most spectacular of all bays and was so named by the founder of the city, Duke Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3860   (1852 words)

  
 The Treaty of Portsmouth (Portsmouth Peace Treaty)
Somehow the Far Easterners started to believe that as soon as the magic wand of the foreign capital touches the coast of the Russian Far East, everything will be changed, probably even the pine apple trees will appear there.
Finally, the Far Easterners have not taken into account the Soviet bureaucracy, a social stratum which cannot be appeased, on rational terms, and which builds its functioning upon mere extortion.
Be it the economic underdevelopment of the Russian Far East, be it the secessionist movement in the Russian Far East, be it the global security of the Pacific area, the results of the incompetent policy of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russian government in general look dreadful.
www.portsmouthpeacetreaty.com /pleshakov.cfm   (2762 words)

  
 The Samovar - The Rossica Society Forum
The latest area for digital forgeries is the Far Eastern Republic.
The first from this area was the 1 R perf, S.G. Three single copies were sent to me over a year ago from Rossphil for an opinion.
I then realised why they were so alike and examined them at 120 x magnification which confirmed they were digital copies of a forged FER overprint on a late printing of the 1 R. perf.
www.rossica.org /Samovar/viewthread.php?tid=677   (365 words)

  
 Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, VI
In April, 1920 the Bolshevik Alexander Krasnoshchekov declared the establishment of an "independent" Far Eastern Republic based in Chita and claiming sovereignty over territory occupied by Japan.
Japan withdrew from Vladivostok in late 1922; soon afterwards, the Red Army (not the army of the Far Eastern Republic) took Vladivostok.
Four weeks later the Far Eastern Republic puppet voted to unite with the rest of Soviet Russia.
www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1f.htm   (1670 words)

  
 Lenin: Answers to Questions by A. M. Krasnoshchokov, Foreign Minister of the Far-Eastern Republic
Krasnoshchokov, Foreign Minister of the Far-Eastern Republic and member of the Far-Eastern Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) in which he reported the signing of an armistice agreement with Japan on July 15.
A special protocol signed by the representatives of the F.-E.R. and Japan stated that the best way of establishing peace in the Far East was the creation of a buffer state based on democratic principles, under a single government to be formed at a conference attended by representatives from all the regions of the territory.
It was in connection with this conference that Krasnoshchokov asked Lenin for urgent replies to the questions raised in his telegram.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1920/jul/17a.htm   (313 words)

  
 Russian Civil War Polities
Many polities referred to here as "republics" are simply given that designation historically and were not actually republics, many in fact never established a form of administration.
Also second part of name of this republic is pointed not for self named town, but for all Krivorogian basin.
Aug 1920 Amur Oblast was at last attached to Republic of the Far East.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Russia_war.html   (3815 words)

  
 Vladivostok
The Dalzavod shipyard is on the left, the base of the Pacific Navy in the middle, and the Fishery Port on the opposite side.
Vladivostok's suburbs, stretching in a thin band along the eastern side of amursky bay, are a mix of old dachas, sanatoriums, Khrushchev-era apartment buildings, and newly-built brick homes for Vladivostok's wealthy.
Primorskiy Kray is bordered by Khabarovsk Kray to the north, and China and North Korea to the west and southwest, with Japan a few hours by air to the east.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/vladivostok.htm   (744 words)

  
 Stalin - Johnson's Russia List 1-28-03
As far as Stalin’s terror is concerned, he said that there was no way to avoid innocent victims.
It stands the reason that it was just a test of forces for the Japanese, for they came to conclusion that the combat efficiency of the Soviet troops in the Far East was paralyzed with the cleansing at the Red Banner Army of the Far East.
The heroes of recent battles in the Far East were awarded with decorations on October 28th 1938.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7036-9.cfm   (1155 words)

  
 Moscow and the Far Eastern Republic (The Nation, December 13, 1922)
Moscow and the Far Eastern Republic (The Nation, December 13, 1922)
The Far Eastern Republic had been declared a democratic republic owing to the pressure of foreign imperialism, particularly under the pressure of the Japanese who directly demanded that the Far Eastern Republic be acknowledged not a soviet but a democratic republic.
This was conceded in the interests of peace, in the hope of weakening by this act the foreign intervention and the onslaught of international capital, particularly of Japanese imperialism against this distant frontier of Soviet Russia.
www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13647309   (181 words)

  
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 Chronology 1922
The Soviet Russian government was now free to annex the Far Eastern Republic and extend Bolshevik rule to the Pacific Ocean.
Turkish Nationalist leader Mustapha Kemal proclaimed the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate and the establishment of the Turkish republic.
With the evacuation of Japanese forces from eastern Siberia, the Soviet Russian government was free to eliminate the buffer zone formed by the Far Eastern Republic and annexed the territory.
www.indiana.edu /~league/1922.htm   (2036 words)

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