Under Soviet rule, both the villages were forced to disband and residents were moved to the Russian dominated Zaporozhye rural settlement in Ust-Bolsheretsky Raion.

Similarly, it was presented to various government officials, military and diplomatic, in the United States and in Europe ( 1919 – 1920 ), in opposition to the Russian Revolution, and to influence the terms of the peace settlement which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.

Much of its expansion had taken place in the 17th century, culminating in the first Russian settlement of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the reconquest of Kiev, and the pacification of the Siberian tribes.

Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye, Bakhmut district ( uyezd ), Yekaterinoslav Governorate ( now part of Lysychansk city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine ), in the Russian Empire, into a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity.

Lithuanians are neither Slavic nor Germanic, although the union with Poland, German and Russian colonization and settlement left cultural and religious influences.

The Germans demanded the " independence " of Poland and Lithuania, which they already occupied, while the Bolsheviks demanded " peace without annexations or indemnities " — in other words, a settlement under which the revolutionary government that succeeded the Russian Empire would give neither territory nor money.

The ROC should not be confused with the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ), a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church that traces its existence in North America from the time of the Russian Orthodox missionaries in Alaska in the late 18th century and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross on the Pacific coast in California in the early 19th century.

The process of Jewish settlement in Estonia began in the 19th century, when in 1865 Russian Tsar Alexander II granted them the right to enter the region.

To promote settlement and revenue for his rail business, Hill experimented with agriculture and worked to hybridize Russian wheat for Dakota soil and weather conditions.

The Spanish concern about Russian colonial intrusion prompted initiating the upper Las Californias Province settlement, with presidios ( forts ), pueblos ( towns ), and the California missions.

A cantonment and Russian settlement were built across the Ankhor Canal from the old city, and Russian settlers and merchants poured in.

The sea is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East.

The first and foremost Russian settlement on the shore was the port of Okhotsk, which relinquished commercial supremacy to Ayan in the 1840s.

Although the Russian pioneers were skilled builders of river boats they lacked the knowledge and equipment to build sea-going vessels which meant that Okhotsk remained a coastal settlement and not a port.

On 13 August 1850 he founded Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, the first Russian settlement in the region.

Several ethnic churches are located in this part of the city, as a result of settlement in the area by a large number of Eastern European immigrants, with Polish, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Russian significantly represented.

Russian colonization of the Americas reached its southernmost point with the 1812 establishment of Fort Ross ( krepost ' rus ), an agricultural, scientific, and fur-trading settlement located in present-day Sonoma County, California.

Today the largest ethnic Russian diasporas outside of Russia live in former Soviet states such as Ukraine ( about 8 million ), Kazakhstan ( about 3. 8 million ), Belarus ( about 785, 000 ), Latvia ( about 556, 000 ) with the most Russian settlement out of the Baltic States which includes Lithuania and Estonia, Uzbekistan ( about 650, 000 ) and Kyrgyzstan ( about 419, 000 ).

On, 1916, Russian Transport Minister Alexander Trepov petitioned to grant urban status to the railway settlement.

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The city was founded on August 19, 1628 as a Russian border fort when a group of service class people from Yeniseysk led by Andrey Dubenskoy arrived at the confluence of the Kacha and Yenisei Rivers and constructed fortifications intended to protect the frontier from attacks of native peoples who lived along Yenisei and its tributaries.

Along with Kansk to the east, it represented the southern limit of Russian expansion in the Yenisei basin during the seventeenth century.

The Russian settlement of Minyusinskoye () was founded in 1739, at the confluence of the Minusa River with the Yenisei.

To support the new city a railway to the port of Dudinka on the Yenisei River was established, first as a narrow-gauge line ( winter 1935 – 36 ), later as Russian Standard gauge ( 1520 mm ) line ( in the early 1940s ).

The Kan ( Russian Кан ) river is a 390 mile ( 629 km ) long tributary of the Yenisei River in Siberia, Russia.

Kostanay (), formerly known as Kustanay (, until 1997 ) and Nikolayevsk ( Russian: Николаевск, until 1895 ), is a city located in the northern part of Kazakhstan at the Tobol River.

The wooden fort of Omsk was erected on August 2, 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes.

In the 2000s, projects for diverting a significant amounts of Irtysh water within China, such as the proposed Black Irtysh-Karamai Canal, have been decried by Kazakh and Russian environmentalists.

The first Russian to reach the area was Ivan Bukholts who ascended the Irtysh to build a fort and search for gold.

Semey (), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (, until 2007 ) and Alash-kala ( Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917 – 1920 ), is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.

In fall 1585, shortly after Yermak's death, Cossacks led by voyevoda ( army commander ) Ivan Mansurov founded the first Russian fortified town, Obskoi, at the mouth of the Irtysh on the right bank of the Ob.

The Kipchaks ( known in Russian and Ukrainian as Polovtsy ) were a tribal confederation which originally settled at the River Irtysh, possibly connected to the Kimäks.

In fall 1585, shortly after Yermak's death, Cossacks led by voevoda ( army commander ) Ivan Mansurov founded the first Russian fortified town in Siberia, Obskoy, at the mouth of the Irtysh river on the right bank of the Ob river.

Depending on their region and their time, different sources each used their own vision to denote different sections of the vast Cuman territory: in Byzantine, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Persian and Muslim sources, Cumania meant the Pontic steppe, that is the steppelands to the north of the Black Sea and on its eastern side as far as the Caspian Sea, where the lowlands between the Dnieper, the Volga, the Ural and the Irtysh rivers were favorable to the nomadic lifestyle of the Cumans.

It is located 350 km northeast of the national capital Astana, and 400 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River.

They dot the Ukrainian and south Russian steppes, extending in great chains for many kilometers along ridges and watersheds.

The most obvious archeological remains associated with the Scythians are the great burial mounds, some over 20 m high, which dot the Ukrainian and Russian steppe belts and extend in great chains for many kilometers along ridges and watersheds.

The term kekur () is used for the stacks in the Arctic and Pacific oceans, in the Russian Far East, and for stone columns in the watersheds of the Lena, Yana and Indigirka Rivers.

After heated debates over startup continued through 1993, French and Russian nuclear consultants declared operating conditions basically safe.

In foreign policy, Abdülaziz turned to the Russian Empire for friendship, as turmoil in the Balkan provinces continued.

One of the documents of that time states, " The Victory immediately gained the general sympathy of Russian society and it continued to grow.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

The Red Finns did not accept total alliance with the Bolsheviks ; major disputes continued over demarcation of the border between Red Finland and Soviet Russia, and over the civil rights of Russian citizens in Finland.

During the last years of the Russian Empire, in the early 20th century, many authors continued to write in the gothic fiction genre, including historian and historical fiction writer Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who developed psychological characterization, symbolist Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Alexander Grin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

Although a Russian army defeated the Golden Horde at Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of the Russian-inhabited territories, along with demands of tribute from Russian princes, continued until about 1480.

Their views continued to be popular with many Bolsheviks throughout most of the Russian Civil War and their supporters, including Podvoisky, who became one of Trotsky's deputies, were a constant thorn in Trotsky's side.

The uprisings started in 1918 and continued through the Russian Civil War and after until 1922.

A Methodist presence was continued in Russia for 14 years after the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the efforts of Deaconess Anna Eklund.

It continued through the turmoil of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War into the period of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union until 1925.

Russian continued to develop as the official language of privilege, whereas Romanian remained the principal vernacular.

Although most council communists felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that the Soviet Union was a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalists ( an additional argument in favour of that was the continued existence of capitalist relations, as manifested e. g. in the New Economic Policy ).

Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( more or less Foreign Minister ), and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10, 1918, announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as " no war — no peace ".

Since then research and development has continued and currently Russian forces field a wide array of third-generation FAE warheads.

As 1735 progressed with the Austrians being in no real position to continue the fight, and the French concerned by the possible arrival of Russian reinforcements on the Rhine ( which did eventually occur ), negotiations continued through the summer of 1735.

Even when the French were in occupation of the Russian capital Moscow, Russian forces in the south were not recalled but continued their offensive against Persia, culminating in Pyotr Kotlyarevsky's victories at Aslanduz and Lenkoran, in 1812 and 1813 respectively.

Although Russian forces defeated the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of parts of Rus ' territories, with the requisite demands of tribute, continued until the Great stand on the Ugra river in 1480.

While relations have improved and an intentional nuclear exchange is more unlikely, the decay in Russian nuclear capability in the post Cold War era may have had an effect on the continued viability of the MAD doctrine.

After Finland became part of the Russian Empire ( 1809 ), and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki ( 1812 ), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland, until the end of the 1840s.

Subsequently, Russian explorers and settlers continued to establish trading posts in mainland Alaska, on the Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, and Northern California.