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A 1773 map of northwestern America based on reports from Russian explorers. The earliest written accounts indicate that the Eurasian Russians were the first Europeans to reach Alaska. There is an unofficial assumption that Eurasian Slavic navigators reached the coast of Alaska long before the 18th century.
People from Russian America (1 C, 12 P) Russian forts in the United States (4 P) Russian-American Company (1 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Russian colonization of North ...
The Corn Islands were leased from Nicaragua for a period of 99 years; however, this was not a full transfer of sovereignty, and the islands were never administered as an insular area. [361] no change to map: May 1, 1915 The borders of the Panama Canal Zone were explicitly defined. Whereas the original definition was a simple corridor ...
A continuing weakness in the Russian system was a shortage of long-service volunteers to provide career NCOs. [11] Cossacks served under a complex and semi-feudal conscription system of their own and "Alien" cavalry units were recruited as volunteers from Muslim tribal groups in the southern regions of the Russian Empire. [12]
Outside of the armed forces, the most prolific public group which spoke out against conscription was the Committee of Soldiers Mothers, later changed to the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia in 1998. The group was founded in 1989 and aimed to record and publicise the treatment of conscripts within training and barracks centres.
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. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search; Parker, William Henry. An historical geography of Russia (Aldine ...
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
The present name of Fort Ross [5] appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. [6] The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...