Siberia: Lost in Translation?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Sarah Hurst wrote:

> The article about Siberia on Wikipedia is quite good:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia
> 
> I think people are probably more adamant now about the Far East not being
> part of Siberia because Siberia and the Far East have been separated into
> different federal districts. I don’t know, though, whether historically
> people in the Far East have ever complained about being called Siberia like
> the woman in Blagoveshchensk that you mention.

The etymology appears to offer no basis for delineation, which must have 
come later:
<http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fshare%2Fstarling%2Fmorpho&morpho=1&basename=%5Cusr%5Clocal%5Cshare%5Cstarling%5Cmorpho%5Cvasmer%5Cvasmer&first=1&text_word=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8C&method_word=substring>

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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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