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    Siberian River Routes were the main ways of communication in Russian Siberia before the 1730s, when roads began to be built. The rivers were also of primary...
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    Previously, Siberian transport had been mostly by river via Siberian River Routes. The first Russian settlers arrived in Siberia by the Cherdyn river route which...
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    of profit possibilities in the trans-Saharan trade routes. For centuries slave and gold trade routes linking West Africa with the Mediterranean passed...
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    (see Siberian River Routes). The ice-free period on the Nizhnyaya Tunguska starts in mid-June and ends in the first half of October. The river forms...
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    the short Northern summer. Trade also occurred along the Siberian River Routes' Northern Route. It became "a virtual Baghdad of Siberia, a city-state,...
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    The Trans-Siberian Railway, historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib, is a large railway system that connects European...
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    the 14th century the Novgorodians explored the Kara Sea and the West Siberian river Ob (1364). After the fall of the Novgorod Republic its communications...
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    where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the river. The Gulf of Ob is the world's longest estuary. The internationally known name of the river is based on...
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    Portage. North of the Churchill is Barren Grounds. Siberian River Routes: development of riverine routes in the interior of Siberia. Butterfield (1898)....
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    moving supplies over the coastal mountains. For background see Siberian River Routes. Continental landmarks of the Sea of Okhotsk Coast may be classified...
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