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The map of the Siberian route in the 18th century (green) and the early 19th century (red).The Siberian Route (Russian: Сибирский тракт, romanized: Sibirsky trakt), also known as the Moscow Highway (Московский тракт, Moskovsky trakt) and Great Highway (Большой тракт, Bolshoi trakt), was a historic route that connected European Russia to Siberia and China.
The Siberian Chronicles are incomplete and contradictory as are the secondary sources in English. This account follows Lantzeff [1] which seems to be the fullest account in English. Lantzeff follows S. V. Bakhruskin. The main problems are the year the expedition started, details of the route, and the location of the battle at Sibir.
The Trans-Siberian Railway, [a] historically known as the Great Siberian Route [b] and often shortened to Transsib, [c] is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. [1] Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. [2]
Ethnographic map of the Soviet Union, 1970 (from History of Siberia) Image 29 The Khanate of Sibir in the 15th and 16th centuries (from History of Siberia ) Image 30 An ethnographic map of 16th-century Siberia , made in the Russian Empire period, between 1890 and 1907 (from Indigenous peoples of Siberia )
A number of Siberian-based companies extended their businesses of various consumer products to meta-regional and an All-Russian level. Various Siberian artists and industries, have created communities that are not centralized in Moscow anymore, like the Idea [47] (annual low-budged ads festival), Golden Capital [48] (annual prize in architecture).
Information on the route taken from the Russian Wikipedia's article by: (see authors at the history page) Author: ... 1=Siberian route schematic map. }} {{ru ...
The Penguin historical atlas of Russia (Viking, 1995), new topical maps. Chew, Allen F. An atlas of Russian history: eleven centuries of changing borders (Yale UP, 1970), new topical maps. Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of Russian history (Oxford UP, 1993), new topical maps. Parker, William Henry. An historical geography of Russia (Aldine, 1968).
River routes based on descriptions by James Forsyth's A History of the Peoples of Siberia, 1992. Siberian River Routes were the main ways of communication in Russian Siberia before the 1730s, when roads began to be built. The rivers were also of primary importance in the process of Russian conquest and exploration of