Abstract
Spanning eight time zones and thirteen million square kilometers, Siberia is home to Indigenous Siberians—the so-called "small-numbered native peoples of the North" ( korennye malochislennye narody Severa ), more populous Indigenous Siberian ethnic minorities, Russian old settlers, and newcomers and their descendants from all across the former Soviet Union and east Asia. Siberia as a region has been geographically defined in slightly different ways throughout history and different regimes; at its broadest delineation (which we take here) it encompasses all of northern Asia from the Ural Mountains in the west to the sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Ocean in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north and the borders of central-east Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China to the south. Around 37 million people call this vast space home as of 2022, according to estimates made in late 2021 (Goskomstat, 2022).
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | The Siberian World |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Asian history
- Central Asian studies
- Eastern European studies
- Russian studies
- Siberia
- cultural geography
- regional geography - human geography
- social and cultural history
- social geography
EGS Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Geography
- International and Area Studies