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Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
Russian Americans (Russian: русские американцы, romanized: russkiye amerikantsy, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ]) are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in ...
By 1818 Fort Ross had a population of 128, consisting of 26 Russians and of 102 Native Americans. [5]: 181 The Russians maintained it until 1841, when they left the region. [21] As of 2015 Fort Ross is a Federal National Historical Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.
Overall, the 'Ancestral Native Americans' descended from the admixture of an Ancient East Asian lineage contributing about 65% ancestry, and a Paleolithic Siberian population known as Ancient North Eurasians, contributing about 35% ancestry. Ancestral Native Americans are most closely related to 'Ancient Paleo-Siberians' and 'Ancient Beringians'.
Time of contact with Russians varied throughout each native group since the Native Alaskan groups were spread throughout Alaska. [8] Arriving from Siberia by ship in the mid-eighteenth century, Russians began to trade with Alaska Natives in what became known as the Aleutian Islands .
The development of arts, architecture, and music during the Russian period combined traditional Alaska Native techniques with Old Russian culture derived from the Byzantine Church. Cross-cultural borrowings were the characteristic of the period; an example of this cross-cultural borrowing was the Alaskan celebration of Christmas incorporating ...
Russian explorers in the 1800s erroneously identified the Yupik people bordering the territory of the somewhat unrelated Aleut as also Aleut, or Alutiiq, in Yupik. By tradition, this term has remained in use, as well as Sugpiaq , both of which refer to the Yupik of Southcentral Alaska and Kodiak .
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (born 1992), Russian Jewish YouTube personality known for his adult rated pranks, was born in Murmansk; Virsaviya Borum-Goncharova (born 2009) Russian born-American artist born with Pentalogy of Cantrell