Sentence examples for russian settlements from inspiring English sources

The commentary points out that Russian settlements lack proper roads.

One of the earliest Russian settlements in Siberia, it was founded as the fort of Krasny Yar in 1628 on the left bank of the Yenisey.

The tsar gave them exclusive trading rights in North America north of latitude 55° and made them responsible for the administration of Russian settlements there.

Rezanov became a partner and in 1795 chief executive of the Shelekhov-Golikov Fur Company, trading in the Russian settlements on the northwestern coast of North America.

He was governor of the Russian settlements in America (1829 35), director of the Russian American Company (1840 49), and naval minister (1855 57), retiring in 1864.

"Where before a tiger roared now a locomotive whistles, and where there was once a sparse scattering of Chinese trappers there are now large Russian settlements.

The Terek River represented the southern frontier of Russian settlement in the Caucasus for much of the 19th century.

Although Siberia was used as a place of exile for criminals and political prisoners, Russian settlement (by state peasants and runaway serfs) remained insignificant until the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1891 1905), after which large-scale in-migration occurred.

Indeed in this frontier area, where towns carry names like New Moscow and where Siberian tigers still roam, Russians have intermittently relied on Asians to do farm work ever since Russian settlement began in the 1850's.

But the Japanese look back to the expulsion of 17,000 Japanese from the Southern Kuriles in the late 1940's and give short shrift to subsequent Russian settlement of the islands.

Before the 19th century AD Russian settlement and colonisation, Kazakhs did not provide supplementary fodder for their animals, but rather moved between ecological zones to seasonal pastures (Kerven et al. 1996).