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George Kennan George Kennan
George Kennan 1845-1924, American authority on Siberia, b. Norwalk, Ohio. In 1864 he made the first of his journeys to East Asia as an engineer. His articles on Siberia, for many years almost the sole authoritative source of information on that region, were published as Tent Life in Siberia ... Read more
Takashi (Kei) Hara Takashi (Kei) Hara
Takashi (Kei) Hara , 1856-1921, Japanese statesman, prime minister (1918-21). As secretary-general and later president (1914), Hara established the Seiyukai as the first powerful majority party by compromise with the oligarchs (see genro ), distribution of patronage posts to cooperative... Read more
Evenki Evenki
Evenki (Northern Tungus) ETHNONYMS: Tungus (the Russian name); Birar, Ile, Manegir, Mata, and Orochen (names of dialects and/or ethnic subgroups) Orientation Identification. An indigenous people of central and eastern Siberia, the Evenki were formerly divided into many distinct groups.... Read more
Siberia Siberia
Siberia , Rus. Sibir, vast geographical region of Russia, covering c.2,900,000 sq mi (7,511,000 sq km) and having an estimated population (1992) of 32,459,000. Historically it has had no official standing as a political or territorial division, but it was generally understood to comprise the... Read more
Tyumen Tyumen
Tyumen , city (1989 pop. 477,000), capital of Tyumen region, SW Siberian Russia, on the Tura River. On the Trans-Siberian RR, Tyumen is a major transfer point for river and rail freight. It has shipyards and machine plants. The surrounding area is rich in petroleum and natural gas. Tyumen was... Read more
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak , 1874-1920, Russian admiral, leader of the anti-Bolshevik forces in W Siberia during the civil war (1918-20). He distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War, and in World War I he commanded the Black Sea fleet. After the October Revolution of 1917, Kolchak became... Read more
aquamarine aquamarine
aquamarine [Lat.,=seawater], transparent beryl with a blue or bluish-green color. Sources of the gems include Brazil, Siberia, the Union of Myanmar, Madagascar, and parts of the United States. Oriental aquamarine is a transparent crystalline corundum with a bluish tinge. The emerald is similar in... Read more
Chukchi Chukchi
Chukchi PRONUNCIATION:chook-CHEE ALTERNATE NAMES:Lygoraveltlat; Chukchee LOCATION:Russia (Chukchi peninsula in northeastern Siberia) POPULATION:15,000 LANGUAGE:Chukchi RELIGION:Native form of Shamanism 1 • INTRODUCTION Several small and ancient Paleo-Siberian groups... Read more
Sir George Simpson Sir George Simpson
Sir George Simpson 1792?-1860, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada (1821-56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, where he took charge of the important Athabaska fur district. Appointed (1821) governor of the northern department of the company (with... Read more
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte , 1849-1915, Russian premier. A railway administrator, he became minister of communications (1892) and minister of finance (1892-1903). He introduced the gold standard, reformed finances, encouraged the development of Russian industries with the help of foreign capital,... Read more

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