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Geographical region

The Russian Far East (Russian: Дальний Восток России , tr. Dal'niy Vostok Rossii , IPA: [ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ]) is a region in Northeast Asia. Information technology is the easternmost part of Russian federation and the Asian continent; and is administered as office of the Far Eastern Federal District, which is located betwixt Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia and the Pacific Sea. The region's largest city is Khabarovsk, followed by Vladivostok.

The region shares land borders with the countries of Mongolia, China, and North Korea to its south, as well every bit maritime boundaries with Japan to its southeast, and with the United States forth the Bering Strait to its northeast. Although the Russian Far East is often considered as a part of Siberia away, it has been historically categorized separately from Siberia in Russian regional schemes (and previously during the Soviet era when it was called the Soviet Far East).^[1]

Terminology [edit]

In Russian federation, the region is normally referred to every bit just "Far Due east" ( Дальний Восток ). What is known in English every bit the Far East is usually referred to equally "the Asia-Pacific Region" ( Азиатско-тихоокеанский регион , abbreviated to АТР ), or "Due east Asia" ( Восточная Азия ), depending on the context.

Geographical features [edit]

Beyenchime-Salaatin crater
Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano
Kuril–Kamchatka Trench
Lake Baikal

Creature [edit]

Order Galliformes [edit]

Family Tetraonidae [edit]

Hazel grouse^[ii]
Siberian grouse^[three]
Black grouse^[4]
Blackness-billed capercaillie^[5]
Willow ptarmigan^[six]
Rock ptarmigan^[seven]

Family Phasianidae [edit]

Daurian partridge
Japanese quail
Ring-necked pheasant

Order Artiodactyla [edit]

Sika deer
Snow sheep
Caribou
Moose
Wild boar
Siberian roe deer
Manchurian wapiti^[8]
Siberian musk deer^[nine]

Society Carnivora [edit]

Family Canidae [edit]

Grey wolf
Tundra wolf
Arctic fob
Scarlet fox

Family Felidae [edit]

Amur leopard^[10]
Siberian tiger^[eleven]

Family Ursidae [edit]

Asian black bear^[12]
Brown acquit^[13]
Polar acquit

Flora [edit]

Picea obovata^[fourteen]
Pinus pumila^[15]

History [edit]

Russian expansion [edit]

Russians reached the Pacific coast in 1647 with the establishment of Okhotsk, and the Russian Empire consolidated its command over the Russian Far East in the 19th century, after the annexation of part of Chinese Manchuria (1858-1860). Primorskaya Oblast was established as a separate administrative sectionalization of the Russian Empire in 1856, with its authoritative centre at Khabarovsk.

Administrative history [edit]

Several entities with the name "Far Eastward" existed in the starting time one-half of the 20th century, all with rather unlike boundaries:

1920–1922: the Far Eastern Republic, which included Transbaikal, Amur, Primorskaya, and Kamchatka Oblasts and northern Sakhalin;
1922–1926: Far-Eastern Oblast [ru], which included Amur, Transbaikal and Kamchatka Guberniyas and others;
1926–1938: Far-Eastern Krai, which included the nowadays-day Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais.

Until 2000 the Russian Far East lacked officially-defined boundaries. A single term "Siberia and the Far East" ( Сибирь и Дальний Восток ) often referred to Russian federation'southward regions east of the Urals without drawing a clear stardom between "Siberia" and "the Far East".

In 2000 Russia's federal subjects were grouped into larger federal districts, one of which, the Far Eastern Federal District, comprised Amur Oblast, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the Jewish Democratic Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast with the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, and Sakhalin Oblast. In November 2018 Zabaykalsky Krai and the Democracy of Buryatia were added they had previously formed role of the Siberian Federal Commune.^[sixteen] Since 2000, Russians accept increasingly used the term "Far East" to refer to the federal district, though the term is oft also used more than loosely.

Divers past the boundaries of the federal district, the Far East has an surface area of 6.2 million foursquare kilometres (2,400,000 sq mi)—over i-3rd of Russia's total area.

Russo-Japanese War [edit]

Russian federation in the early 1900s persistently sought a warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean for the Imperial Russian Navy as well every bit to facilitate maritime trade. The recently-established Pacific seaport of Vladivostok (founded in 1860) was operational only during the summer flavor, but Port Arthur (leased past Russian from Mainland china from 1896 onwards) in Manchuria could operate all year. Later the First Sino-Japanese State of war (1894-1895) and the failure of the 1903 negotiations betwixt Nippon and the Tsar's authorities, Nihon chose war to protect its domination of Korea and adjacent territories. Russian federation, meanwhile, saw war as a means of distracting its populace from regime repression and of rallying patriotism in the aftermath of several full general strikes. Japan issued a declaration of war on eight February 1904. Nevertheless, three hours before Japan'south annunciation of war was received by the Russian government, the Purple Japanese Navy attacked the Russian 1st Pacific Squadron at Port Arthur. Eight days later on Russia alleged war on Japan.

The war ended in September 1905 with a Japanese victory post-obit the fall of Port Arthur and the failed Russian invasion of Japan through the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China; also, Japan had threatened to invade Primorsky Krai via Korea. The warring parties signed the Treaty of Portsmouth on 5 September 1905, and both Nihon and Russia agreed to evacuate Manchuria and to return its sovereignty to China, but Nippon was allowed to lease the Liaodong Peninsula (containing Port Arthur and Talien), and the Russian track system in southern Manchuria with its access to strategic resources. Nihon as well received the southern half of the isle of Sakhalin from Russia. In 1907 Nihon forced Russia to confiscate land from Korean settlers (who formed the majority of Primorsky Krai'southward population) due to a fear of an invasion of Korea and of the ousting of Japanese troops past Korean guerrillas.^{[ citation needed ]}

Soviet era [edit]

Number and share of Ukrainians in the population of the regions of the RSFSR (1926 census)

Between 1937 and 1939, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin deported over 200,000 Koreans to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, fearing that the Koreans might act as spies for Japan. Many Koreans died on the style in cattle trains due to starvation, disease, or freezing conditions. Soviet regime purged and executed many community leaders; Koryo-saram were not allowed to travel outside of Central Asia for the adjacent 15 years. Koreans were also not immune to use the Korean linguistic communication and its apply began to go lost with the involvement of the Koryo-mar dialect and the apply of Russian.

Evolution of numerous remote locations in the Soviet Far East relied on GULAG labour camps during Stalin's dominion, peculiarly in the region's northern half. After the death of Stalin in 1953 the large-scale use of forced labour waned and was superseded past volunteer employees attracted past relatively high wages.

Soviet–Japanese conflicts [edit]

During the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Soviets occupied Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Yinlong Island, and several adjacent islets to split up the urban center of Khabarovsk from the territory controlled by a maybe hostile power.^[17]

Indeed, Japan turned its armed forces attention to Soviet territories. Conflicts between the Japanese and the Soviets oftentimes happened on the border of Manchuria between 1938 and 1945. The get-go confrontation occurred in Primorsky Krai, the Battle of Lake Khasan (July–August 1938) involved an attempted military incursion of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo into territory claimed past the Soviet Union. This incursion was founded in the beliefs of the Japanese side that the Soviet Matrimony had misinterpreted the demarcation of the boundary based on the 1860 Treaty of Peking betwixt Imperial Russia and Manchu China. Primorsky Krai was always threatened by a Japanese invasion despite the fact that near of the remaining clashes occurred in Manchukuo.

The clashes concluded shortly before the conclusion of Earth State of war Ii when a war-weakened Japan establish its territories of Manchukuo, Mengjiang, Korea, and Southward Sakhalin invaded past Soviet and Mongolian troops (August 1945).

World State of war Two [edit]

Both the Soviet Union and Nihon regarded the Primorsky Krai as a strategic location in World War 2, and clashes over the territory were common. The Soviets and the other Allies considered it a key location for the planned invasion of Japan through Korea; Japan viewed it equally a central location to begin a mass invasion of Eastern Russia. The Primorsky Krai served as the Soviet Matrimony's Pacific headquarters in the war to programme an invasion for allied troops of Korea in order to achieve Japan.

After the Soviet invasion, the USSR returned Manchukuo and Mengjiang to Mainland china; Korea became liberated. The Soviet Union also occupied and annexed the Kuril Islands and southern Saghalien. The planned Soviet invasion of Nippon proper never happened.

Cold War [edit]

During the Korean State of war, Primorsky Krai became the site of extreme security business concern for the Soviet Union.

Vladivostok became the site of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in 1974. At the time, the Soviet Wedlock and the United States decided quantitative limits on various nuclear weapons systems and banned the structure of new land-based ICBM launchers. Vladivostok and other cities in Primorsky Krai presently^{[ when? ]} became closed cities because of the bases of the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

Incursions of American reconnaissance shipping from Alaska sometimes happened. Concerns of the Soviet military machine caused the infamous Korean Air Lines Flight 007 incident in 1983.

Russia [edit]

Russian Homestead Act [edit]

In 2016, President Vladimir Putin proposed the Russian Homestead Act to populate the Russian Far East.

Demographics [edit]

Population [edit]

Graph depicting population change in the Russian Far East

Co-ordinate to the 2010 Census, Far Eastern Federal District had a population of 6,293,129. Nearly of it is concentrated in the southern parts. Given the vast territory of the Russian Far Due east, 6.3 1000000 people translates to slightly less than one person per square kilometer, making the Russian Far Eastward one of the nigh sparsely populated areas in the globe. The population of the Russian Far East has been quickly failing since the dissolution of the Soviet Marriage (even more so than for Russian federation in general), dropping by fourteen% in the terminal fifteen years. The Russian government had been discussing a range of re-population programs to avoid the forecast driblet to 4.5 meg people by 2015, hoping to attract in particular the remaining Russian population of the near abroad but eventually agreeing on a program to resettle Ukrainian Illegal immigrants.

Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians brand upwards the majority of the population.

Cities [edit]

75% of the population is urban. The largest cities are:

Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Ulan-Ude
Chita
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Blagoveshchensk
Yakutsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Nakhodka
Ussuriysk

Ukrainian Resettlement Program [edit]

In 2016, a programme was approved which hoped to resettle at least 500,000 Ukrainians in the Far Due east. This included giving complimentary land to attract voluntary immigrants from Ukraine and the settlement of refugees from East Ukraine.^{[ citation needed ]}

Traditional ethnic groups [edit]

The original population groups of the Russian Far East include (grouped by linguistic communication group):

Mongolic: Buryats
Turkic: Sakha
Eskimo–Aleut: Aleuts, Siberian Yupiks (Yuits)
Chukotko-Kamchatkan: Chukchi, Koryaks, Alutors, Kereks, Itelmens
Tungusic: Evenks, Evens, Nanais, Orochs, Ul'ch, Udegey, Orok, Manchus
Isolate: Koreans, Yukaghirs, Nivkhs, Ainus

Transportation [edit]

The region was not connected with the rest of Russia via domestic highways until the M58 highway was completed in 2010.

Uniquely for Russia, most cars have right-hand bulldoze (73% of all cars in the region),^[18] though traffic still flows on the correct-hand side of the road.

Railways are better developed. The Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal–Amur Mainline (since 1984) provide a connection with Siberia (and the residuum of the country). The Amur–Yakutsk Mainline is aimed to link the city of Yakutsk to the Russian railway network. Rider trains connect to Nizhny Bestyakh equally of 2013.

Like in nearby Siberia, for many remote localities, aviation is the principal way of transportation to/from civilisation, but the infrastructure is often poor.

Maritime transport is also important for delivering supplies to localities at (or near) the Pacific and Arctic coasts.

See likewise [edit]

Bering Strait
Far North (Russia)
Kolyma
List of Russian explorers
Outer Manchuria

Footnotes [edit]

^ Mieczowski, Z. "The Soviet Far Due east: Trouble Region of the USSR". 41 (2). University of British Columbia: 214–229. JSTOR 2754796.
^ "Northern Hazelhen (Tetrastes bonasia). Photo Gallery.Birds of Russian Far E". fareastru.birds.watch . Retrieved 2020-06-18 .
^ "Siberian Grouse (Falcipennis falcipennis). Photo Gallery.Birds of Russian Far East". fareastru.birds.watch . Retrieved 2020-06-18 .
^ "Northern Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix). Birds of Russian Far East". fareastru.birds.lookout . Retrieved 2020-06-eighteen .
^ "Black-billed Capercaillie - eBird". ebird.org . Retrieved 2020-06-18 .
^ "Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). Photo Gallery.Birds of Russian Far Eastward". fareastru.birds.spotter . Retrieved 2020-06-18 .
^ "Stone Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta). Photo Gallery.Birds of Russian Far E". fareastru.birds.lookout . Retrieved 2020-06-18 .
^ Valerius Geist (January 1998). Deer of the Earth: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Environmental. Stackpole Books. p. 211. ISBN978-0-8117-0496-0 . Retrieved xxx Jan 2016.
^ Nyambayar, B.; Mix, H.; Tsytsulina, K. (2015). "Moschus moschiferus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: eastward.T13897A61977573. doi:10.2305/IUCN.Uk.2015-2.RLTS.T13897A61977573.en . Retrieved 19 Nov 2021. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
^ Uphyrkina, O.; Miquelle, D.; Quigley, H.; Driscoll, C.; O'Brien, S. J. (2002). "Conservation Genetics of the Far Eastern Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)" (PDF). Periodical of Heredity. 93 (5): 303–eleven. doi:10.1093/jhered/93.five.303. PMID 12547918. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Miquelle, D.; Darman, Y.; Seryodkin, I (2011). "Panthera tigris ssp. altaica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: due east.T15956A5333650. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T15956A5333650.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ Garshelis, D.; Steinmetz, R. (2020). "Ursus thibetanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22824A166528664. doi:10.2305/IUCN.U.k..2020-iii.RLTS.T22824A166528664.en . Retrieved xix Nov 2021.
^ McLellan, B.N.; Proctor, M.F.; Huber, D.; Michel, S. (2017). "Ursus arctos". IUCN Ruddy List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T41688A121229971. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T41688A121229971.en . Retrieved 19 Nov 2021.
^ Farjon, A. (2013). "Pinus pumila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: eastward.T42405A2977712. doi:ten.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-ane.RLTS.T42405A2977712.en.
^ A. Farjon (2013). "Picea obovata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: eastward.T42331A2973177. doi:10.2305/IUCN.Uk.2013-i.RLTS.T42331A2973177.en.
^ "Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации". publication.pravo.gov.ru . Retrieved 2018-11-04 .
^ The People'south Commonwealth of China recognized Russian possession of the eastern half of these lands in the treaty of 2004, whereas the western half then reverted to China.
^ "В России посчитали всех "праворуких"". auto.vesti.ru . Retrieved 24 Apr 2017.

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External links [edit]

Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West (includes materials on Russian Far East)
Дальневосточный федеральный округ at WGEO

cobbcompere.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Far_East