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In late 1945, Soviet Russia annexed the northern border strip of the Masurian District (current southern border strip of Kaliningrad Oblast) with the towns of Gierdawy (now Zheleznodorozhny) and Iławka (now Bagrationovsk) from Poland and expelled the already formed local Polish administration.
Interactive map showing how Russia's borders have changed over the centuries.
The Russian conquest of Siberia began in July 1580 when some 540 Cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich invaded the territory of the Voguls, subjects to Kuchum Khan, ruler of the Sibir Khanate. They were accompanied by some Lithuanian and German mercenaries and prisoners of war.
1 dzień temu · Scroll down to see Russia’s entire history on our interactive map.
This map illustrates European borders prior to the start of WWI in 1914 with black lines and new states formed by the First World War in red. As the map illustrates, a number of states became independent from Tsarist Russia.
Russian Empire. Coat of arms of Siberia, which was a part of the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms until 1917. Map of the Siberian Route in the 18th century (green) and the early 19th century (red) By the mid-17th century, Russia had established areas of control that extended to the Pacific Ocean.
26 wrz 2022 · The study of Russian territorial expansion allows us to teach the history of Russia together with its geography in such physiographic countries as the Urals, Western Siberia, the mountains of Southern Siberia, and the Far East.
