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  • According to a census held in 1896, Jews represented about 2% of the region total population. It can be assumed that almost 100% of them were Bukharian ...more than 20,000 Ashkenazi Jews fled to Kyrgyzstan from the Nazi-occupied western parts of the Soviet Union. The Jewish Theater Company of [[Warsaw]] with th
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  • ...itime Province]].<ref name="lee7"/> Prior to the completion of the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]], Koreans outnumbered Russians in the [[Russian Far East]]; the lo ...[ethnic Koreans in China|ethnic Koreans from China]] have also come to the region to settle, invest, and/or engage in cross-border trade.<ref name="JYLee">{{
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  • ...splay.asp?AddButton=pages\P\O\PopulismWesternUkrainian.htm|title=Populism, Western Ukrainian|publisher=Encyclopediaofukraine.com|date=1993|accessdate=16 March ...r", and originally had the sense of "periphery", "borderland" or "frontier region" etc.<ref name="litopys.org.ua"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Vasmer|first=Max|aut
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  • ...riety of [[Turco-Mongol]] semi-[[nomadic empires]] who controlled the vast region known as [[Tartary]]. More recently, however, the term refers more narrowly ...sians have called "Tatars" are the [[Volga Tatars]], native to the [[Volga region]] ([[Tatarstan]] and [[Bashkortostan]]), who for this reason are often also
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  • |title = {{resize|11.5pt|Eurasian Economic Union}} |common_name = Eurasian Economic Union
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  • ...en noted as a convenient pass suitable for riders on horseback between the western [[Eurasian steppe]] and lands further east, and for its fierce and almost c ..."/><ref>"If, as some scholars suggest, the Issedones were the Wusun of the western Gobi, the Arimaspi the Huiung-nu of Mongolia, and the Hyperboreans the Chin
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  • Founded by a unit of the [[Siberian Cossacks]] headed by [[Fyodor Shubin]] in 1830 as Akmoly settlement. ...palatinsk Oblast, Russia|Semipalatinsk]] oblasts.<ref name="The social and economic relations in Kazakhstan in the second half of the XIX century" /> In 1869,
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  • |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Kazakhstan|Region]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Almaty Region]]
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  • |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Kazakhstan|Region]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Pavlodar Region]]
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  • ...iend of [[Grigory Potanin|Potanin]] (1835-1920), a prominent figure in the Siberian autonomy movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dk1868.ru/statii/kornilov1 ...ntry Regiment of [[Estonia]], and was later appointed commander of the 9th Siberian Rifle Division, stationed in [[Vladivostok]].
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  • <!--|region=Bashkortostan ...a [[mountain range]] that runs approximately from north to south through [[western Russia]], from the coast of the [[Arctic Ocean]] to the [[Ural River]] and
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  • ...f> He advocated the [[Dnieper River]] as a general division-line between [[Western Europe]] ("Germania") and Russia. This would necessitate the division of [[ ..., Alex J. (2006). ''Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941", p. 8
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  • | image2 = Urals economic region.png | caption2 = [[Ural economic region]]<ref name=bseecon/>
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  • ...تىش/Ertish/Ертиш; {{lang-tt|Иртеш|İrteş|ﻴﺋرتئش}}, [[Siberian Tatar language|Siber:]] Эйәртеш/Eyärtesh) is a [[river]] in [[Russi ...[[drainage basin]] in [[Asia]], encompassing most of [[West Siberian Plain|Western Siberia]] and the Altai Mountains.
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  • ...anges in climate in this region around 2000 BC and the ensuing ecological, economic and political changes triggered a rapid and massive migration westward into ...r et al. 2009. Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people. Human Genetics.</ref> Although this more likely fact does no
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  • | location = [[Akmola Region]], [[Kazakhstan]] ...і́}}) is a natural park located in the [[Burabay District]], in [[Akmola Region]], [[Kazakhstan]].
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  • ...explored. Prince Gortchakoff, governor of [[West Siberian economic region|Western Siberia]], sent an officer named Assanoff in 1839 with some men to Lake Bal
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  • ...ion]], largely vernal snowmelt, from the mountains of China's [[Xinjiang]] region. ...hors=etal}}</ref> The eastern part is on average 1.7 times deeper than the western section. The largest city near the lake is also named [[Balkhash (city)|Bal
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  • [[File:Prokudin-Gorskii-25.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Railway bridge on the Trans-Siberian across the [[Kama River]] near [[Perm]]]] ...d [[Land bridge (rail)|rail land bridge]], currently comprises the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]], which runs through Russia and is sometimes called the [[Northern
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  • | designation1_free1name = Region ...regions of the Asian continent connecting the [[Eastern world|East]] and [[Western culture|West]] and stretching from the Korean peninsula<ref>{{Cite web|url=
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  • ...of onion native to [[European Russia]], [[Western Siberian economic region|Western Siberia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name=olga>[http://apps.kew
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  • ...nan]], [[Jilin]], [[Liaoning]], [[Xinjiang]]) and the [[Amur Oblast|Amur]] region of [[Russia]].<ref name="Sashapanov">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.d
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  • ...ral Asia''' showing three sets of possible [[Eurasia]]n boundaries for the region]] ...area, it is nearly synonymous with [[Russian Turkestan]], the name for the region during the [[Russian Empire]]. Soviet Central Asia went through many territ
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  • |region = Caucasus ...one of the foremost trading emporia of the medieval world, commanding the western marches of the [[Silk Road]] and playing a key commercial role as a crossro
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