YERMAK

or Ermakboth: yĕrmäkˈ, d. 1584?, Russian conqueror of Siberia; his name also occurs as Yermak Timofeyevich. The leader of a band of independent Russian Cossacks, he spent his early career plundering the czar's ships on the Volga and later entered the service of a merchant family, the Stroganovs. They sent Yermak on an expedition to protect their lands in W Siberia from attack by local tribes. Advancing in river boats, Yermak and his band crossed the Urals and with the superior force of firearms conquered (1582) the capital of the Tatar khanate of Sibir; he placed the conquered territory under the protection of Czar Ivan IV and asked him for aid. Yermak was killed in an encounter with the Tatars, and his troops were forced to retreat. However, Russian troops retook the territory in 1586.

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books on: Yermak  - 115 results

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Siberia--Worlds Apart
Book by Victor L. Mote; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Siberia (Russia)--History
...who in classic fashion rechristened him "Yermak," or "millstone." 23 A kind of Robin Hood, Yermak soon had a heavy price on his head. The...with the tsars troops in hot pursuit, Yermak and his band of 500 took refuge in the Kama...
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Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific
Book by G. Patrick March; Praeger, 1996
Subjects: Asia--Relations--Russia, Asia--Relations--Soviet Union, Pacific Area--Relations--Russia, Pacific Area--Relations--Soviet Union, Russia--Relations--Asia, Russia--Relations--Pacific Area, Russia--Territorial Expansion, Soviet Union--Relations--Asia, Soviet Union--Relations--Pacific Area
...equipments required by the troops, and Yermak provided the leadership necessary to forge...military discipline in the motley group. Yermak and his band ascended the Chusovaia River...progress. Finally, as the autumn wore on, Yermak and his band were faced with another winter...
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Soviet Asia, Democracy's First Line of Defense
Book by Raymond Arthur Davies, Andrew J. Steiger; The Dial Press, 1942
Subjects: Asiatic Russia
...Russias first powerful icebreaker, the Yermak , was launched in British waters in September, 1898. The Yermak named after the Cossack conqueror of Siberia...Pole expedition, built later than the Yermak and called an "ice-battering-ram...
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Russia and Asia
Book by A. Lobanov-Rostovsky; Macmillan, 1933
Subjects: Russia--Foreign Relations
...1581, an expedition under the command of Yermak set out against Kuchum. Yermaks band...expeditionary force up to 840 men. Scarcely had Yermak left, when Perm was raided by the Tartars...applied to the Stroganovs for help. But Yermak was already beyond reach and Stroganov...
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The New Empire
Book by Brooks Adams; Macmillan, 1902
Subjects: Commerce--History, History--Philosophy, United States--History--Philosophy
...employed a certain Cossack pirate of the Volga named Yermak. Yermak, with a mixed band of 800 adventurers, armed and equipped...trade-routes. 1 Here only a summary is possible. Yermak followed the rivers, ascending the Tchussawaya and...
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Warm Is the New Cold: Global Warming, Oil, UNCLOS Article 76, and How an Arctic Treaty Might Stop a New Cold War
Journal article by Brent Carpenter; Environmental Law, Vol. 39, 2009
Subjects: Continental shelf--Laws, regulations and rules, Continental shelves--Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Moon Treaty, 1979, Oil spills--Laws, regulations and rules, Petroleum law--Evaluation, Sovereignty--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
...Lomonosov Ridges D. Classification of Yermak Plateau and Chukehi Cap E. The Commission...an Article 76 claim asserting that the Yermak Plateau is a natural prolongation of its...the Basin. (139) The borderlands are Yermak Plateau, which extends into Nansen Basin...
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IMPERIAL VISIONS: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865
Journal article by John Mccannon; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Book)--Reviews
...0521391741. At the end of the 1845 play Yermak Timofeich, Nikolai Polevois epic about...perishes in battle. But even in death Yermak is triumphant, for the subcontinent is...sands of Siberia. No sweet angels sing Yermak to his rest, and Polevoi, justifiably...
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The Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles: The Work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and the Arctic
Journal article by Vladimir Jares; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Boundary disputes--Laws, regulations and rules, Continental shelf--Laws, regulations and rules, Continental shelves--Laws, regulations and rules, Economic zones (Law of the sea)--Laws, regulations and rules, Economic zones (Maritime law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Territorial waters--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
...continent and subsequent opening of the Eurasian Basin by seafloor spreading along the Gakkel Ridge. The margin includes the Yermak Plateau and a number of glacigenic submarine fans. The most prominent of these fans is the Franz-Victoria Fan, which was...
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Late Cretaceous-palaeocene Continental Rifting in the High Arctic: U-pb Geochronology of the Kap Washington Group Volcanic Sequence, North Greenland
Journal article by Sigurjon B. Thorarinsson, Paul M. Holm, Sebastian Tappe, Larry M. Heaman, Christian Tegner; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 168, 2011
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Geology, Mass spectrometry, Plate tectonics
...the abrupt termination of sea-floor anomalies C25-C23 (58-35 Ma) against the northern margins of the Morris Jessup and Yermak Plateaux (Fig. 1c) (Brozena et al. 2003). Extension in the nascent Eurasia Basin may have caused overall dextral transtension...


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This Side of Ultima Thule: A Dispatch from Eastern Siberia, a Realm of Steel-Shattering Cold, Nullifying Vastness, and Withered Hopes, Which Is Sometimes Called "The White Hell"
Magazine article by Jeffrey Taylor; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Siberia
...paid well for it too. But perestroika killed our mine." Lucre drew Russians into Siberia. In 1581 the Cossack chieftain Yermak Timofeyevich led the first campaigns to break through the khanates left over from the Mongol invasions and bring under Muscovys...
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Hail to Thee, Papa Bear
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, December 1993
Subjects: Indigenous people, Religion, Rites & ceremonies, Siberia, Social life & customs
...drove them back across the Urs into Asia. In the sixteenth century, during the rule of Ivan the Terrible, the Cossack chief Yermak conquered the vast Siberian lands for Russia. Although all of Russia had officially adopted Christianity in 988, shamanic...
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This Side of Ultima Thule
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Russian foreign relations--United States, Siberia, Travelers--Personal narratives, United States, United States foreign relations--Russia, United States foreign relations--Siberia
...paid well for it too. But perestroika killed our mine." Lucre drew Russians into Siberia. In 1581 the Cossack chieftain Yermak Timofeyevich led the first campaigns to break through the khanates left over from the Mongol invasions and bring under Muscovys...
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Navigating Frozen Seas: the Search for the Elusive Northwest Passage
Magazine article by Jim Bloom; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, November 2009
...cross the widest part of the ice sheet, barely making it to Upernavik on the west coast. The first polar icebreaker, the Yermak, was built for the Russian Navy in Newcastle, England in 1898. However, after sustaining some damage in heavy ice off Svalbard...


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encyclopedia articles on: Yermak  - 8 results

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Yermak
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YERMAK or Ermak both: yermak , d. 1584?, Russian conqueror of Siberia; his name also occurs as Yermak Timofeyevich. The leader of a band of independent Russian Cossacks, he spent his early career plundering the czars ships on the Volga and...
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Ermak
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERMAK see Yermak . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the middle and lower Volga; thus he laid the basis for the colonization and annexation of Siberia , begun by the Cossack Yermak in 1581. The conquered border territories were colonized by Russian settlers and defended by the Cossacks . At home, Ivan...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...s capture of the Kazan khanate in 1552 opened the way for Russian expansion into Siberia. In 1581 a band of Cossacks under Yermak crossed the middle Urals and took the city of Sibir (near modern Tobolsk), capital of the Sibir khanate, which gave its...
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Sibir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...capital of the Tatar khanate of Sibir, which arose after the disintegration of the empire of the Golden Horde . The Cossack Yermak took the city of Sibir in 1581, thus marking the start of Moscows conquest of what is now Siberia. The city was abandoned...
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