Tourist Map (44KB); Russia Destinations (main page)
The Russian Far East is Russia’s Pacific "empire" and stretches from the Arctic to Southeast Asia. Since 1639, after a band of Cossacks led by Ivan Moskvitin reached the Okhotsk Sea of the Pacific Ocean, it became and has remained Russia’s border for trade and military defense in the Asia-Pacific. The border in the north is defined by only a few kilometers between the Little (USA) and Big (Russia) Diomede Islands, and with Japan and China in the south along the Ussuri, Amur and Argun River system, with a tiny stretch with North Korea on the very southern tip. Due to remoteness, a predominantly mountainous landscape, mix of thick subtropical and endless Siberian taiga with climates ranging from Arctic winds to Mongolian heat, the region remains one of the least explored and inhabitant lands of Russia. Read more about the Russian Far East here... or related media sources The Siberian Times
|
