INDEX
Abakansk Steppe, the, 41, 49
Abakansk Tartars, the, 50, 80
Achinsk, 15, 41, 256
Agricultural Organization Committee, the, 194
Agriculture, black earth zone, the, 6, 8, 208, 209, 224; co-operative societies, 233; in Central Siberia, 226, 227; cereals, 8, 14; dairy produce, 8, 20, 30, 253; land, tenure of, 118 ff., 125 ff.; machinery, 18, 21, 239, 259; methods employed, 46, 93, 115 ff., 232; Minister of, 194; rye, 136; wheat, 211; the three-field system, 4. See Land
Akmolinsk, government of, 208
Altai Mountains, the, 11, 13, 14, 48, 206, 219
Altaians , the. See Tartars, Altai
Amur River, the, 263, 264, 265
Amusements, 79. See Holidays.
Archangel, 254
Armenians, 34
Army, Russian, 10, 25–27, 83
Astrakhan, Khanate of, 174
Ataman, 265
Baikal, Lake, 251
Banking, in Siberia, 66–68; in Mongolia, 282
Baraba steppe, the, 13, 14, 251
Barnaul, 238, 252, 253
Bazaars, 27, 63, 64
Beryoza, 136
Biisk, 238, 252, 253, 274, 277
Bokhara, Ameer of, 180
Buddhism, 270
Bureaucracy, its merits and demerits, 4, 11, 69, 70, 71, 83, 131, 194
Buriats, the, 263
Canada, comparison of, with Siberia, 8, 12, 14, 17, 20, 34, 85
Catherine the Great, 182, 198
Cattle. See Live stock.
Central Asiatic Railway, the, 2
Chalkoff, 176
Chelyabinsk, 7, 251
China, political influence of, in Asia, 2
Chinese in Siberia, 41, 101, 102, 118, 141, 146, 152, 154 ff., 161
Chuhm River, the, 43, 47
Climate of Siberia, 14, 40, 113
Coal mining, 220, 254
Commerce, British commercial interests in Mongoha, 296 ff.; Minister of, 194; influence of Moscow trusts in Siberia, 85; methods of, 231, 240; representatives versus agents, 242 ff.; Russian commercial law, 241 ff.; scope for foreign capital, 238
Commercial travellers, 11, 17
Communal system, the, 5, 127 ff.
Consular representation, British, 247
Convicts and the convict system, 182–184, 189 ff., 218
Co-operative societies, 233
Copper mining, 254
Cossacks, advance of, into Siberia, 176 ff.; into China, 264
Cotton trade, the, 132, 239, 258, 283, 284
Credit, the Hoshun system, 280 ff.
Crime, 89
Currency in Mongolia, 279
Customs, in Siberia, 258, 268; in Mongolia, 301
Dairy Produce. See under Agriculture
Debentures, position of, in Russian law, 243, 244
Dengiz Khan, 174
Denmark, trade of, with Siberia, 213
Duma, the, 84, 195, 259
Easter Festivities, 51
Economic tendencies in Siberia, 31, 34. 35, 37
Ediger, 175
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