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The Russian Far East (Russian: Дальний Восток России, IPA: [ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ]) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent , and is coextensive with the Far Eastern Federal District , which encompasses the area between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean .
The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia. [ 1 ][ 2 ] South Asia is sometimes also included in the definition of the term. [ 3 ][ 4 ] In modern times, the term Far East has widely fallen out of use and been substituted by Asia–Pacific, [ 5 ...
The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 13 May 2000 by President Vladimir Putin. [5] It is currently governed by presidential envoy Yury Trutnev. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were added to the federal district. [6] The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.
The Far Eastern Republic was established in the later stages of the Russian Civil War. During the Civil War local authorities generally controlled the towns and cities of the Russian Far East, cooperating to a greater or lesser extent with the White Siberian government of Alexander Kolchak and with the succeeding invading forces of the Japanese Army.
Division 2: Middle Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) Region 2: Midwest (designated as the North Central Region before June 1984) [8] Division 3: East North Central (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) Division 4: West North Central (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) Region ...
Primorsky Krai is located in the southern far east, in the south-eastern part of Russia. In the north it borders with Khabarovsk Krai, in the west with the Chinese Provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, in the south-west with North Korea (Special City of Rason) and at the south-east with the Sea of Japan. The total length of the borders is 3,000 ...
v. t. e. Map showing the original border (in pink) between Manchuria and Russia according to the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk, and subsequent losses of territory to Russia in the 1858 Treaty of Aigun (beige) and 1860 Treaty of Peking (red) Outer Manchuria, [3][4][1][2][5] sometimes called Russian Manchuria, refers to a region in Northeast Asia that ...
Geography of the Russian Far East. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geography of Russian Far East. Far Eastern Federal District (highlighted in red) Geography of the Russian Far East district and region, in Northeast Asia.