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Turkistan-Siberia Railroad
Turkistan-Siberia Railroad abbreviated as Turk-Sib, important railroad in Central Asia, providing the shortest link between Siberia and Central Asia. Completed in 1931, it runs from the Trans-Siberian RR at Novosibirsk SW to the Trans-Caspian RR , which it joins N of Tashkent. Its principal stations are Barnaul in Russia and Semey, Almaty, Taraz, and Shymkent in Kazakhstan. A spur of the railroad reaches Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. The railroad is of vital economic importance.
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Siberia's "Treasure State": an investors' guide to Tyumen. (a region in western Siberia)
Magazine article from: Montana Business Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; For most weterners the word Siberia has chilly associations: ice, exile...have set out for voluntary "exile" in Siberia, pursuing the surprisingly rich economic opportunities that Siberia offers. What follows is an economic profile...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Exiled no longer: Siberia.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/21/1992; 700+ words
; Demands for more autonomy in Siberia make people fear the disintegration of Russia. The fears are exaggerated. Siberia's ambition is not. Our special correspondent...RUSSIA would not be Russia without Siberia. This endless stretch of tundra accounts...
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Pipelines of Eastern Siberia: from local supplies to large-scale exports.
Magazine article from: Pipeline & Gas Journal; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Eastern Siberia is a promising oil and gas province...production centers of Russia. Eastern Siberia and the Far East account for about 13...s oil and 19% of gas reserves. The Siberia Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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ESSAY: Veteran Slavist Finally Slouches Toward Siberia, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 5/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...all else in this vast state, of which Siberia is by far the largest part. Perhaps the very space of Siberia inspires a certain dread, a rush to retreat...stereotypes - most of them negative - than Siberia. Common usage in many languages has detached...
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SteelSeries Introduces New Siberia v2 Headset.
Business Wire; 9/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...Version of SteelSeries' Best-Selling Siberia Headset Delivers Superior Sound Isolation...today introduced the new SteelSeries Siberia v2 Full-size Headset. As the successor to SteelSeries' signature Siberia Headset which launched in 2004, the...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Siberia's beauty dazzles even in the winter; Misery, punishment, hardship, and despair are normally associated with Siberia. But as Sebastian Alison discovers it is far from the traditional impression.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/10/1999; 700+ words
; ...quality cuisine? Perhaps you should consider a trip to Siberia. Siberia. The very name smacks of misery, punishment, hardship...of astonishing natural beauty, and a place apart. Siberia is different. The city of Nizhnevartovsk, four hours...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Siberia's disappearing languages underscore a chilling cultural shift.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 12/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...language can be found here in southern Siberia, where the coal industry blackens the...of his work to recording and preserving Siberia's disappearing languages. "It's...once spanned from the steppes of southern Siberia into northern Mongolia, speak one of...
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Integrated chronostratigraphy of the Vendian System of Siberia: Implications for a global stratigraphy
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...these events with key sections in eastern Siberia reveals the development of three cra...sequences that partition the Vendian System of Siberia into high-resolution time slices (third...constraints, the second-order sequence in Siberia is interpreted to represent the youngest...
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Can Siberia survive man? a native asks
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/12/1996; ; 700+ words
; SIBERIA, SIBERIA By Valentin Rasputin; translated from Russian by Margaret Winchell and...Mikkelson Northwestern University Press, 438 pp., illustrated, $40 "Siberia." The very word is chilling, evoking a harshness both environmental...
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A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...James Forsyth's A History of the Peoples of Siberia is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English analyzing the ethnographic...Russian annexation of the northern part of western Siberia was neither peaceful or voluntary (pp. 46...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
SIBERIA Often called the "Wild East," beautiful but austere, Siberia is one of the least populated places on earth. Western Siberia is the world's largest and flattest plain, across which tributaries of the Ob and Irtysh rivers wend their...
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Turkistan-Siberia Railroad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Turkistan-Siberia Railroad abbreviated as Turk-Sib, important railroad in Central Asia, providing the shortest link between Siberia and Central Asia. Completed in 1931, it runs from the Trans-Siberian RR at Novosibirsk SW to the Trans...
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Siberian Estonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...are approximately 20,000 Estonians in Siberia. Most are descendants of the volunteer...x2014; Siberian Estonians. In western Siberia, Estonians live mostly in the Omsk...and Kemerovo regions and, in eastern Siberia, in the Krasnoyarsk and Primorsk regions...
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Russia
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...sixteenth century with the conquest of Siberia. The Stroganov family established trading...Ural Mountains and sent their agents into Siberia to purchase furs with European wares and...and Tobol river basins extending into Siberia and were authorized to build forts, use...
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Siberiaki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Siberiaki live in pockets throughout Siberia and the Russian Far East. They are...Russian, background who settled in Siberia before the Russian Revolution of...before World War II and who adopted Siberia as their homeland. A more inclusive...
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