BARABA STEPPE

bərəbäˈ, agricultural district, SW Siberian Russia, between the Ob and the Irtysh rivers. Barabinsk, on the Trans-Siberian RR, is the region's chief town. It was founded in the 19th cent.

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books on: Baraba Steppe  - 23 results

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The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook
Book by Ronald Wixman; M.E. Sharpe,Inc., 1984
Subjects: Ethnology--Soviet Union--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...Tatar; alt. Rus. des. Baraban tsy . The Baraba Tatars live, primarily, in the Baraba steppe in southwestern Siberia. They form one of the West Siberian Tatar territorial groups. The Baraba Tatars maintain kinship divisions Tara, Terena...
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Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia
Book by S. P. Suslov, Noah D. Gershevsky, Joseph E. Williams; W. H. Freeman, 1961
Subjects: Physical Geography--Asiatic Russia
...scattered over a general steppe background constitute...illustrated on the Baraba Steppe. The interriver...places the wooded-steppe has a well-developed...the Ishim wooded-steppe is to the northeast and that of the Baraba to the southwest...
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Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R
Book by L. S. Berg; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Botany--Soviet Union, Physical Geography--Soviet Union, Zoology--Soviet Union
...slightly saline Lake Chany in the Baraba steppe. The Kokchetav heights...chernozem which belongs to the steppe zone is narrow here, the forest steppe extends almost as far south...boundary of chernozem; the true steppes begin only a little north of...Krylov classifies as forest steppe the entire region of West Siberian...
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Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia's Trade with China and Its Setting, 1727-1805
Book by Clifford M. Foust; University of North Carolina Press, 1969
Subjects: China--Commerce--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Commerce--China
through Tobolsk or Ishim nearby, across the Baraba steppe through Kainsk, Tomsk, Krasnoiarsk to Nizhneudinsk...day. 83 Radishchev also reported that the men of the Baraba steppe across which the Road ran drew large profits from this...
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Shamanism: A Concise Introduction
Book by Margaret Stutley; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Shamanism
...ailments. Some ethnographers see a connection between ongons and totems. The Turks of the Western Siberian Baraba steppe are known as Baraba Tatars who were converted to Islam about the end of the eighteenth century. They had wooden figures that...
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Baraba Steppe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARABA STEPPE b r ba , agricultural district, SW Siberian Russia, between the Ob and the Irtysh rivers. Barabinsk, on the Trans-Siberian...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...north to the Kazakh steppes, the Altai and Sayan...forest belt, and the steppe zone. Forests occupy...especially in the Baraba Steppe , dairying...establishing forts along the steppe to thwart nomadic raids...and butter from the Baraba Steppe. The railroads needs...on cultivation in the steppes of SW Siberia and N...
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Barabinsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARABINSK see Baraba Steppe . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Novosibirsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a hydroelectric power station on the Ob above the city. The region forming Novosibirsk region (which includes the Baraba Steppe ) is predominantly agricultural, although there is coal mining to the east...
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Chany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHANY ch ne , saltwater lake, 1,280 sq mi (3,315 sq km), S Siberian Russia, in the Baraba Steppe, centered among the towns of Bulgar, Barabinsk, and Kupino. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...


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