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The greatest depths of about 915 m are found in the north-eastern part of the sea. [2] [4] [14] The East Siberian Sea is bound to the south by the East Siberian Lowland, an alluvial plain mainly composed of sediments of marine origin dating back to the time when the whole area was occupied by the Verkhoyansk Sea, an ancient sea at the edge of ...
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.
Wrangel Island is located in the Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. As it was not covered by ice during the Quaternary glaciation, it preserved a large number of plant communities that were otherwhere disrupted by ice, and keeps the highest biodiversity of all Arctic islands.
Archaeological evidence places the Naukan on the Chukotka Peninsula off the Bering Sea back 2,000 years. They used to live on Big Diomede Island and Cape Dezhnev in the Bering Strait . The Soviet Union relocated Naukan people from their traditional coastal village of Naukan in 1958.
March, G. Patrick. "Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific" (1996) Marks, S.G. Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850–1917 (1991) Naumov, Igor V. The history of Siberia (Routledge, 2006), with bibliography pp 232–234. Pesterev, V. (2015). Siberian frontier: the territory of fear ...
It is said that the Chukchi kept his head as a trophy for a number of years. The Russians waged war again in the 1750s, but a part of Chukchi people did survive this extermination plans on the very far North East (see on the right a map for population territories during the extermination activity by the Russian Empire). [citation needed]
Before the beginning of the Soviet reign the Evens were referred to as the Lamut by other groups, originally coined by the Yakut people, a nearby Siberian indigenous group. The word Lamu refers to the Okhotsk Sea in the languages spoken in eastern Siberia, thus it is reasonable to assume that this is where the name Lamut originates.
The Kets have a rich and varied culture, filled with an abundance of Siberian mythology, including shamanistic practices and oral traditions. Siberia, the area of Russia in which the Kets reside, has long been identified as the originating place of the Shaman or Shamanism.