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1549 map of the region, in upper-right hand corner depicted Yugra (IVHRA, Homeland of the Hungarians) (located within Siberia before its unification with Russia) 1595 map of Russia (yellow borders) The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1581–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were ...
A history of the peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony 1581–1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1994) excerpt; Gibson, James R. "The Significance of Siberia to Tsarist Russia." Canadian Slavonic Papers 14.3 (1972): 442–453. Goldstein, Lyle, and Vitaly Kozyrev. "China, Japan and the scramble for Siberia" Survival 48.1 (2006): 163–178
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
Russia contains about 40% of the world's known resources of nickel at the Norilsk deposit in Siberia. Norilsk Nickel is the world's biggest nickel and palladium producer. [90] Siberian agriculture is severely restricted by the short growing season of most of the region.
The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia.
Experts said the “groundbreaking” discovery revealed that hunter-gatherers built “complex” structures.
An ethnographic map of 16th-century Siberia, made in the Russian Empire period, between 1890 and 1907 (from Indigenous peoples of Siberia) Image 30 Siberian river routes were of primary importance in the process of Russian exploration and conquest of Siberia .
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). 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.