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 History of Siberia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The history of Siberia abounds in vast areas, many (The people who live in a nation or country) nations and extremes of climate and marginalisation.
In 1628 the Russians reached the (A Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea) Lena, founded the fort of (additional info and facts about Yakutsk) Yakutsk in 1637, and two years later reached the (An arm of the Pacific east of Asia) Sea of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Ulya river.
Siberia also became the site of much of the (A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) USSR's covert research.
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 AllRefer.com - Siberia : History : Russian Conquest (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Findings made in the late 1990s indicate that Siberia was inhabited as early as 300,000 years ago, rather than 40,000 years ago, as previously thought.
In the historic period, S Siberia frequently served as the point of departure for several nomadic groups, such as Huns, Mongols, and Manchus, who conquered and lost immense empires.
In 1581 a band of Cossacks under Yermak crossed the middle Urals and took the city of Tatars), and during the 17th cent.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Siberia
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.
In the interior of Siberia there was a great increase of the colonizing movement in the nineteenth century; from the thirties on especially there was a great number of exiles.
Among the causes for this decline, outside of the small natural increase of the aborigines, are such diseases as small-pox and typhus that have been introduced by Europeans, the injury done by brandy, the decline of the chase, and the steady advance of the Russian peasant.
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 History (from Siberia) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Siberia extends from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and the borders of Mongolia and China.
History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
Brief history of Uruguay from its settlement by Europeans in the 16th century to the restoration of democracy in the 1980s.
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 Siberia: History
Siberia was used as a penal colony and a place of exile for political prisoners; among the latter there emerged (especially after the exile of leaders of the Decembrist Conspiracy of 1825) a small but vocal Siberian intelligentsia, who agitated for an end of Siberia's colonial status.
Siberia's economic development increased dramatically during World War II with the transfer of many industries from European USSR to the other side of the Urals, where they would be less vulnerable to German seizure.
The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia.
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 2. Eurasia and Siberia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To the east, other late Ice Age people adapted to life on the open steppe-tundra, relying on mammoth bones, skins, and sod to build dome-shaped, semisubterranean houses.
The late Ice Age population of Eurasia, between central Europe and Lake Baikal in Siberia, was never large.
Most bands lived on the edges of river valleys like the Dnepr and Don in the Ukraine, subsisting on mammoth and other gregarious big game, as well as fish and plant foods in the spring, summer, and fall.
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 ipedia.com: History of Siberia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The scientific exploration of Siberia, begun in the period 1733 to 1742 by Messerschmidt, Gmelin, and De Lisle de la Croyhre, was followed up by Muller, Fischer and Georgi.
The journeys of Hansteen and Erman (1828ff) were a most important step in the exploration of the territory.
Siberia also became the site of many of the USSR's covert research.
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 yakut sakha ethnic siberian social studies
That could be a good summary of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)." This is by far the largest of the autonomous republics of the Russian Federation and the home of the Yakut.
Yakutia is one of the pivotal territories of the Russian Federation for three reasons: first, numbering 382,000 (1998 estimate of Yakuts in Russia), Yakuts are the most numerous native ethnic group of Siberia..." History and timeline.
This is not an imaginary re-creation but a faithful record of a ceremony held in the late nineteenth century..." Listen to sounds recorded by Waldemar Jochelson on wax cylinders, ca.
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 Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed August 5 in History
Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed August 5 in History
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