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Meeting of Frontiers: Exploration - The Russian Discovery of Siberia - English, Russian
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdiscvry/discsib.html

Siberia entered the flow of Russian history relatively late, at the end of the sixteenth century. The official Russian incursion into Siberia dates to 1581, when the Cossack hetman Ermak Timofeevich led a detachment across the Ural Mountains and soon after defeated the forces of the Khanate of Sibir'.

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Èâàí Ìîñêâèòèí - Russian
URL: http://explorers.narod.ru/moskvitin.htm

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Ðóññêèé çåìëåïðîõîäåö. Â 1639 ãîäó ñ îòðÿäîì êàçàêîâ ïåðâûì äîñòèã Îõîòñêîãî ìîðÿ: îòêðûë åãî ïîáåðåæüå è Ñàõàëèíñêèé çàëèâ.

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