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 | | The Russians, in short, had to become expert in wilderness survival, at which the peoples they subdued were already adept. |
 | | The speed of Russian penetration into West and East Siberia can be demonstrated by the founding dates of the future cities of the region: 'Tyumen (1586), Tobolsk (1587), Mangazeya (1601), Tomsk (1604), Yeniseisk (1619), Bratsk (1631), Yakutsk (1632), Okhotsk (1647) and Irkutsk (1661)' (Wood 1987a, p39). |
 | | Farmers, Exiles and Dreamers Siberia is often conceived of in the Western imagination as a place of Tsarist exiles and then huge GULAGS (= GULag, Russian initials for Main Prison-Camp Administration, Wood 1987a, p51) or concentration camps created by the Soviet state from the 1930s through the 1950s. |
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