ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : History of the Russian Far East</title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Sibir"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Russian Far East <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xrusfareast.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xrusfareast.html"> <img src = "../banners/banrusfareast.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on February 4th 2005</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : The Russian Far East </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1639 <BR> 1646 <BR> 1648 <BR> 1648 <BR> 1675 <BR> 1689 <BR> 1696 <BR> 1697 <BR> 1806-1807 <BR> 1825 <BR> 1849 <BR> 1850 <BR><BR> 1851 <BR> 1853-1856 <BR> 1855 <BR><BR> 1858 <BR> 1858 <BR> 1860 <BR> 1862 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1869 <BR> 1871 <BR> 1871 <BR> 1875 <BR> 1880 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1891-1905 <BR> 1893 <BR> 1897 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1904-1905 <BR> 1905 <BR><BR> 1906 <BR> 1908 <BR> 1918-1920 <BR><BR> 1920-1922 <BR> 1922 <BR> 1924 <BR> 1925 <BR> 1926 <BR> 1928 <BR> 1930 <BR> 1932 <BR> 1934 <BR><BR> 1934 <BR> 1934 <BR> 1937 <BR><BR> 1938 <BR> 1939 <BR> 1945 <BR><BR> 1953 <BR> 1969 <BR> 1983 <BR> 1991 <BR> 1992 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Igor Moskvitin reached the Pacific Ocean <BR> First Russian expedition (Polyakov) visited Sakhalin <BR> Dezhnev reached Cape Dezhnev, on Bering Straits <BR> Foundation of Okhotsk <BR> Chita founded <BR> Treaty of Nerchinsk, with Qing China, separated mutual spheres of interest <BR> Atlasov founded Verkhne-Kamchatsk, first Russian settlement on Kamchatka <BR> First Russian expedition (Atlasov) visited Kuril Islands <BR> Russo-Japanese skirmishes on southern Sakhalin <BR> 82 Decembrists banned to Chita <BR> Nevelsky found navigable channel in Sakhalin Straits <BR> Russian flag hoisted at estuary of Amur River; Amur valley, Sakhalin claimed <BR> for Russia <BR> Chita elevated to rank of a city <BR> Crimean War <BR> Russo-Japanese Treaty, establishes border in Kurils (between Etorofu, <BR> Uruppu), leaves Sakhalin as neither Japanese nor Russian <BR> Treaty of Aigun; China ceded Amur Province <BR> Khabarovsk founded as a military outpost <BR> Treaty of Peking (Beijing); China ceded Far Eastern Province <BR> Vladivostok founded as a free port <BR> Begin of Korean immigration into the Russian Far East <BR> Russia declared Sakhalin a penal colony <BR> Vladivostok connected to Nagasaki, Shanghai by underwater telegraph cable <BR> Vladivistok became Russia's main naval port on the Pacific <BR> Treaty of St. Petersburg; Russia annexed Sakhalin, Japan the Kuril Islands <BR> Khabarovska, Vladivostok elevated to rank of a city <BR> Vladivostok proclaimed a fortress <BR> Construction of the Transiberian Railway (Transib) <BR> Khabarovka renamed Khabarovsk <BR> Vladiviostok and Khabarovka were connected by rail <BR> Vladivostok ceased to be a free port <BR> Russo-Jpanese War; Vladivostok blockaded, shelled by Japanese fleet <BR> Following defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Russia ceded <BR> Southern Sakhalin (Karafuto) to Japan <BR> Penal colony, enforced exile abolished by Russian govt. <BR> Sakhalin declared open to free settlement <BR> During the Russian Civil War, the Far East was held by White and Japanese <BR> Forces <BR> Far Eastern Republic, capital Chita; in 1922 the Japanese withdrew <BR> Far Eastern Republic annexed into RSFSR <BR> Khabarovsk became administrative center of Far Eastern Territory <BR> Japanese troops evacuated Northern Sakhalin, held since 1917 <BR> Radio station in Vladivostok began broadcasting <BR> Jewish settlement in Birobidzhan established <BR> Vladivostok closed to foreign visitors <BR> Mining operations in Magadan undertaken, with convict labour <BR> Autonomous territory created for the USSR's Jews, in Birobidzhan on the Amur <BR> (within Khabarovsk Kray, RSFSR) <BR> Creation of Khabarovsk Krai <BR> Khabarovsk State University established <BR> Stalin had the ethnic Korean population deported from the Soviet Far East into <BR> Soviet Central Asia <BR> Russo-Japanese armed conflict near Lake Khasan <BR> City of Magadan founded <BR> Following World War II, the USSR annexed Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril <BR> Islands <BR> Magadan Region established <BR> Soviet-Chinese border conflict <BR> Korean Airlines passenger plane shot down by Soviet Air Force over Sakhalin <BR> Baikal-Amur Main Line (BAM, railroad) completed <BR> Vladivostok reopened to foreign visitors <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Article History of Siberia, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Siberia"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Sakhalin, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Establishment and development of the JAR, by <A HREF = "http://www.eao.ru/eng/?p=361"><B>Jewish Autonomous Region</B></A> <BR> History of Khabarovsk, from <A HREF = "http://intour-khabarovsk.com/Content/khv_history.html"><B>Intour Khabarovsk</B></A> <BR> Article Russian Far East, from <A HREF = "http://www.bartleby.com/65/ru/RussFarE.html"><B>Columbia Encyclopedia</B></A> <BR> A Brief History of the Koryak, from <A HREF = "http://www.koryaks.net/history.html"><B>Koryaks.net</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://museum.sakh.com/eng/13.shtml"><B>Sakhalin Regional Museum</B></A>, webpage on history of S. <BR> Maps : Asian Russian Empire (Blackie & Sons 1882), posted by <A HREF = "http://feefhs.org/maps/RUSA/MAPIRUSA.HTML"><B>FEEFHS</B></A> <BR> Article Siberia, from <A HREF = "http://76.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SI/SIBERIA.htm"><B>EB 1911</B></A> <BR> A Short History of Siberia, from <A HREF = "http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lilab/Landeskunde/russ/russges_e.htm"><B>Ruhr-Univ. Bochum</B></A> <BR> Article : Siberia, from <A HREF = "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13767b.htm"><B>Catholic Encyclopedia</B></A>, 1912 edition <BR> Koreans in Russia : a Historical Perspective, from <A HREF = "http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200409/kt2004092218583111950.htm"><B> Korea Times</B></A> <BR> History of Vladivostok, by <A HREF = "http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1242/vladhistory.html"><B>Alexx</B></A> <BR> History of Kamchatka, by <A HREF = "http://www.kilimanjaro.cc/kamchatka/history.htm"><B>Andrew Wielochowski</B></A> <BR> David Nordlander, <A HREF = "http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/fulltext/gulag/105.pdf"><B>Magadan and the economic history of Dalstroi in the 1930es</B></A> <BR> Chita, from <A HREF = "http://www.russiancourier.com/go/eng/info/geography/obj0032432988"><B>Russian Courier</B></A> <BR> Transib History, from <A HREF = "http://www.transsib.ru/Eng/history-review.htm"><B>Trans Siberian Railway Encyclopedia</B></A> <BR> A Short History of the Catholic Church in the Territory of the Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia, postede by <A HREF = "http://www.vladmission.org/history/siberia.htm"><B>Mary Mother of God Mission Society</B></A> <BR> Sakhalin and the Kuriles : History, from <A HREF = "http://www.sakhalin.ru/Engl/Region/history.htm"><B>Sakhalin.ru</B></A> <BR> The 27th Infantry - AEF Siberia, from <A HREF = "http://www.kolchak.org/History/Siberia/aef.htm"><B>Kolchak.org</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=427&doc_id=-83"><B>Khabarovsk Territory</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=396&doc_id=-52"><B>Magadan Region</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=430&doc_id=-86"><B>Primorye Territory</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=364&doc_id=-22"><B>Chukotka Aut. Area</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=369&doc_id=-26"><B>Koryak Aut. Area</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=374&doc_id=-31"><B>Jewish Aut. Region</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=410&doc_id=-66"><B>Sakhalin Region</B></A>, from Kommersant, has detailed articles on the history of the respective region <BR> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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