by Frazier
Pokrovskoye
Poland
Politburo
pollution
Polo, Marco
population; Mongols and; recent decline
postcards
Posyolok Dorozhnikov
power plants
Powers, Francis Gary
pozhe
prehistoric times
Prigarin, Sergei
Primorskii Region
prisons; conditions; death toll; Decembrists in; escapes; gulag; insects; Kennan on; lagers
Provideniya
Pruss
Przhevalskii, N. M.
puffins
Pushkin, Alexander; “Vystrel”
Putin, Vladimir; oil interests
Rabbits
radicals, violent
radio, talk
Radischchev, Aleksandr; A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
railroads; BAM; Trans-Siberian
Rasputin, Grigory
Rasputin, Valentin; Siberia, Siberia
ravens
Razdolnaya River
Reagan, Ronald
Red Army
Reed, John; death of; Ten Days That Shook the World; The War in Eastern Europe
reforms; Decembrists and
reindeer
religion; Soviet campaign against; see also churches; specific religions
Remezov, Semyon; Remezov Chronicle
revolutionaries; Decembrists
Revolution of 1905
Rhode Island
Richard I, King of England
Risk (game)
rivers; see also specific rivers
roads, see buses; car travel; specific roads
Romanovs
Rome
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rouse, Henry C.
Rozen, Andrei
rubles
Ribruquis, William de
Rubtsovsk
Rudolf II, Emperor of Hungary
Russia (post-Soviet Union); oil and gas; population decline
Russia (pre-Soviet Union); acquisition of Siberia; -Chinese trade; civil war; Decembrists and; expansionism; Mongol period; Napoleonic invasion of; World War I; see also tsarism
Russia-love
Russian American Company
Russian-American Telegraph Company
Russian Revolution (1917)
Russo-Japanese War
Rutskoi, Vice President
Ryazan
Ryleev, Konrad
sable
St. Petersburg
Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin I
Sakhalin II
Sakha Republic
salmon
salt
Samarkand
sanitary arrangements
Sarai
Sarmatians
satellite phone
satellites; collision of
Saudi Arabia
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Schiltberger, Johann
Scott, Walter
Scythians
seals
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
sea travel; lost boats; slave ships
Secret History of the Mongols, The
Sekti
Selenga River
Selenginsk
Semeyonov, Grigory
September 11 attacks
serfdom
Serov, Victor
Severnaya Dvina River
Severobaikalsk
sex trafficking
Shalamov, Varlam
Shaybani
Shaybanids
Shektman, Boris
Sheldon, Robert
Sheremetyevo Airport
Shibaev, Sergei
Shilka River
Shishmaref
shopping malls
Shparo, Dmitri
Shushenskoye
Siberia, first known references to
Siberian Traps
Sibir’
Sibir, Khan of
Sibirskii Trakt, see Trakt
Sigismund, King of Hungary
Sikhote-Alin Mountains
silk
silver
Simbirsk
size
skiing
Skovorodino
slang
slave ships
Slobodkina, Esphyr
smallpox
smells
Smith, Adam
Smith, Captain John
Smolensk
snow
snowmobiles
socialism
“social Siberia”
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr; The Gulag Archipelago
Sonam Gyatso
Sophia Paleologue
Southern Society
Soviet Union; Afghan War; Cold War; creation of; exiles; fall of; gulag conditions; Lend-Lease program and; Siberia comes under control of; World War II
space program
Spencer, Herbert
sports
Sputnik
Stalin, Joseph; death of; exile in Siberia; government; Great Terror; legacy of; World War II and
Stalingrad, Battle of
Stalker, Enoch
stars
steam bath
Steinberg, Saul
Steller, George; Journal of a Voyage with Bering 1741–1742; Steller’s History of Kamchatka
Stepniak
steppes; barbarians; Mongols
Stimpfle, Jim
Stolypin, Pyotr
Struchkov, Andrei
Sukhona River
summer
superstitions
Supreme Soviet
Surikov, Vasily
Susanin, Ivan
Suzdal
Sverdlov, Yakov M.
Sverdlovsk
swamps
Sweden
Switzerland
Taibugids
taiga
Taishnet
talk radio
Tamerlane
Tanga
Taoism
Tarkan-Kala
Tatars
taxes
taxis
tea; trade
tectonics
telegraph
telephone; satellite
television
Temuchin, see Genghis Khan
tents, see camping and tents
Tereshkova, Valentina
terminology, Siberian
Terror, see Great Terror
terrorism; September 11 attacks
Teutonic Knights
Theodore, Tsar
Tibetan Buddhism
ticks
tigers
timber
Time of Troubles
time zones
Timofeyevich, Yermak
tin
Tkachenko, Anatoly
Tobol River
Tobolsk
Tobora
toggling harpoon point
Tokhtamysh, Khan
Tolstoy, Leo; on Decembrists; Kennan and; Resurrection; War and Peace
Tomsk
Topolinoe
Topolinskaya Highway
Topo River
tourism
Tracy, Destutt de
trade; Chinese-Russian; fur; tea
Trakt
Trans-Siberian Railway; civil war and; Soviet-era
trash
travel; air; American travelers in Russia; British travelers in Russia; bus; car; to China; dangers of; exploration; ferry; helicopter; literature; metro; post-Revolution; preparations; sea; September 11 attacks and; snowmobile; Trakt; Trans-Siberian Railway; vezdekhots
Treaty of Nerchinsk
Trediakovskii, V. K.
Trepov, F. F.
Tretyakov Gallery
Trotsky, Leon; in exile
trout
Trubetskoy, Ekaterina
Trubetskoy, Prince Sergei
Trubetskoy, Zinaida
tsarism, antigovernment violence against; Decembrists and; exiles in Siberia and; murder o
f Romanov family; Time of Troubles
Tugulymskaya
Tulun
tundra
Tungus
Tunguska River
Tura River
Turgenev, Ivan; Father and Sons
Turgenev, Nicholas
Turkey
Turukhansk
Twain, Mark; Innocents Abroad
Twentieth Party Congress
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Sir Ranulph
Tynda
Tyoplyi Kliuch
typhus
Tyumen
Uelen
Uglich
Uighurs
Ukraine
Ulan-Ude
Ulitsa Kosmonavta
Ulyanov, Alexander
Union of Salvation
Union of Welfare
United Energy Systems
United States; atomic bomb; Civil War; Cold War relations with Soviet Union; Lend-Lease program; oil interests in Siberia; proximity to Russia; September 11 attacks; trade with Russia; travelers to Russia; World War I; World War II
U.S. Coast Guard
Ural Mountains
Ureliki
Ussuri River
Ust-Barguzin
Ust-Kut
Ust’-Mana
Ustyug
vaccinations
vagon
Vankor
Velikii Ustyug
Venyukov, M. I.
Verkhnechonsk
Verkhoyansk
vezdekhots
Viatka
Victoria, Queen of England
Vietnam
Viliusk
villages; Old Believer; see also specific villages
Vilnius
Vilyui River
Vissarion
Vitebsk
Vladimir
Vladimirskaya Bay
Vladivostok
vodka; at weddings
Voguls
volcanic rock
volcanoes
Volga River
Volkonsky, Maria
Volkonsky, Mikhail
Volkonsky, Sergei
Volochaevka, Battle of
Vologda
Wales
Wallace, Henry; Soviet Asia Mission
Washington Post, The
water; see also rivers; sea travel; specific bodies of water
Waterloo
watermelons
Waxell, Sven
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney
weddings
Westdahl, Norman
Western Union
whales and whaling; skulls
Wheeler, William: The Other Side of the Earth
White Army
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Woodrow
winter; see also cold; ice; snow
wires
Wolfe, Thomas
women; babushka; beauty of; Decembrist wives gulag prisoners; Mongol harems; sable coats; sex trafficking
World War I
World War II; Lend-Lease program
Wright, George Frederick: Asiatic Russia
Yakushkin, Ivan Dmitrievich
Yakutia
Yakuts
Yakutsk
Yamal Peninsula
Yaroslavl, Grand Duke of Suzdal
yasak
yasaq
Yashkino
Yasumasa, Captain Fukushima
Yeltsin, Boris
Yenisei River
Yermak
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Yndrekanute
Yukos Oil
Yupiks
yurangis
Zashiversk
Zasulich, Vera
Zavalishin, Dmitri
Zeya River
Zhukhov, G. K.
Zima Junction
zinc