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The Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society was founded at the same time in Irkutsk, and afterwards became a permanent centre for the exploration of Siberia; while the opening of the Amur and Sakhalin attracted Richard Maack, Schmidt, Glehn, Gustav Radde, and Leopold von Schrenck, who created works on the flora, fauna, and ...
Natural history of Siberia (2 C, 6 P) R. Russian exiles in Siberia (1 C, 6 P) S. Siberian internees (22 P) Khanate of Sibir (12 P) T. Tunguska event (25 P)
The origin of the name is uncertain. [10] The Russian name Yugra was applied to the northern lands east of the Urals, which had been known of since the 11th century or earlier, while the name Siberia is first mentioned in Russian chronicles at the start of the 15th century in connection with the death of the khan Tokhtamysh, in "the Siberian land".
A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful.
Death mask from a grave of the Tashtyk culture (1st-5th century AD, Minusinsk Hollow). The Prehistory of Siberia is marked by several archaeologically distinct cultures. In the Chalcolithic, the cultures of western and southern Siberia were pastoralists, while the eastern taiga and the tundra were dominated by hunter-gatherers until the Late Middle Ages and even beyond.
To Siberia: There was a slow and steady expansion east and north from Kazan into the Kama River lands toward the Urals. In 1582, the Urals were crossed and the conquest of Siberia began. See Siberian River Routes, History of Siberia.
This slowly unfurling literary portal is the work of the ship’s California-based interior architect Richard Riveire of Rottet Studio, who designed the spaces, and Heywood Hill, a nearly century ...
The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians .