Siberia: Lost in Translation?

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William Ryan wrote:
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> 18th c. Sibir' extended from the Urals to Kamchatka. I have found some 
> Russian books which continue this historical usage, but the official Russian 
> geographical definition at present seems to be that the Pacific watershed 
> (not a very precise line) is the current eastern boundary and that Siberia 
> and the Russian Far East are distinct entities.

I am wondering whether this ambiguity is due to the fact that in the 1920s 
there was a formally distinct state entity there called "Dal'nevostochnaja 
Respublika" (DVR). Then the eastern border of the Soviet Russia (and the 
Soviet Siberia, as a consequence) would not go all the way to the Pacific 
but would end at the western border of the DVR.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

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