Siberia (Price)/Index
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
Education in Siberia, 20, 23 ff., 36, 37, 73, ff., 83, 104, 109
Education Board, the, 194
England, English trade with Siberia, 19, 21, 213
Exiles and the exile system, 20, 24, 27, 77, 81, 82, 86, 186 ff., 190 ff.
Exports, butter, 29; dairy produce, 30; furs, 30; minerals, 30; timber, 30; lack of transport facilities for, 28, 30
Finns, the, 34, 140, 164
Fishing industry, the, 102, 139, 228
Free Trade, 259
Fur trade, the, 30, 102, 138, 158 ff., 207, 217, 218, 228, 288, 289
Georgians, 34
Germany, trade of, in Siberia, 11, 19, Z13, 250
Gobi, the, 262
Gold mining, 17, 19, 82, 88, 100, 219, 229
Golovin, 265
Government of Siberia, 193 ff.
Hakaz, the, 170
Hardware trade, the, 239, 285
Hide trade, 259
Holidays, 55. 60, 99
Horses, Siberian, 63, 64; price of, 66
Hoshun system, the, 270, 271, 280
Hospitals, 23, 72
Hotels, 17
Housing, typical Siberian houses, 16, 46, 47, 95–97, 144
Hunni, the, 170
Hutuchtu Lama, the, 270
Ili Treaty, the, 267, 268
Iliteracy, 73
Immigration, centres of, 7; State regulation of, 185–187; statistics of, 188, 210, 225; subsidies, 42
Individuahsm, growth of, 127
Industries, domestic, 36, 77; development of, 229, 230
Interior, Minister of, 194
Irkutsk, 11, 74, 277
Iron mining, 254
Irtish River, the, 13, 176, 207, 251, 253
Ishim-Irtish steppes, the, 9, 14
Ishim River, the, 9, 255
Ivan the Terrible, 173 ff.
Japan, commerce of, in Manchuria, 41; policy of, in Manchuria, 298
Jews in Siberia, 20, 34
Justice, Department of, 194
Kalgan, 269, 274, 276
Kamschatka, 268
Kang-hi, 264
Kansk, 256
Kara Sea, the, 257
Kemschik, the, 142
Khiakta, 275; Treaty of, 266
Khiva, Khan of, 180
Kirghiz steppes, the, 9, 251
Kobdo, 267, 269, 274
Kokand, Khan of, 180
Koko-Hotu, 269, 276
Kondia, 173
Kotlass, 254
Krasnoyarsk, 15, 16–39, 41, 224, 248, 256
Kuchum, Khan, 174
Kuldjaj, 267
Kurgan, 7, 238, 251
Kuznetsk, 47, 49, 254
Land, private ownership, conditions of, 235; State ownership of, 34; Survey Staff, the, 194; tenure of, 33, 118 ff., 125 ff.; Valuation Staff, the, 194
Leather trade, the, 239
Lena goldfields, the, 244
Letts, 34, 162
Libraries, 24
Live-stock industrv, 13, 214, 227, 228; grazing, 5, 7, 13, 94; in Mongolia, 287
Living, cost of, 29, 48; standard of, 30, 49, 233
Local Emigration Committee, the, 194
Local Government, 22 ff., 69 ff., 119 ff., 122 ff.
Machinery. See Agricultural Mining
Manchuria, 263, 264
Manchus, the, 264, 265, 269
Meat, export of, 238, 253
Minerals, export of, 30. See also Mining
Ming dynasty, the, 264
Mining, 71, 218–221; capital, foreign, scope for, 237, 246; coal, 254; convict labour, 183; copper, 254; iron, 254; machinery, demand for, 239, 240, 259; rights, method of acquiring, 246; transport, 255, 256; wages, 246
Minusinsk, 41, 57, 251, 277
Minusinsk steppe, the, 49
Mongol Empire, the, 171
Mongolia, exports, 274, 283 ff.; frontier of, 141, 265, 267; government of, 269 ff. ; imports, 283 ff.; Russian policy in, 294 ff.
Moscow, its Orientalism, 1, 3; economic relations with Siberia, 28, 85
Muscovy, Tsardom of, 172 ff.
Museums, 24, 75
Narim, 136
Nerchinsk, Treaty of, 265, 267
Nitsa,255
Novgorod, Republic of, 172 ff.
Novo-nikolaevsk, 13, 222, 248, 253
Novo-Zemlya, 257
Obdoria, 173
Obdorsk, 136
Obi, the, 13, 84, 207, 251, 253
Omsk, 13, 238, 248, 255
Orenburg, 251
Ostiaks, the, 137, 172, 201, 202
Oxus, the, 9
Passports, 10, 69
Peasant Affairs, Department of, 194
Perm, 6, 254
Petropavlovsk, 9, 222, 238, 248
Poles, 34
Population, 35; density of, 13, 36, 209, 210, 224, 225; of Western Siberia, 223; of Yenisei Government, 224, 225
Prices, general, 29; bread, 100; cotton goods, 284; dairy produce, 211; furs, 138; horses, 66; rye, 227 ; timber, 19, 216; wheat, 227, 259; wool, 286
Prison Committee, the, 194
Prisons, 89 ff., 190
Provision trade, the, 239
Public Health Department, the, 194
Railways, capital, foreign, scope for, 236; comfort of travelling, 10; development of, effect of, on development of Siberia, 222; Great Siberian Railway, the, 250 ff.; material, importation of, 259; North Siberian Railway, the, 255; Omsk-Tiumen Railway, the, 249; projected, 253 ff. See Transport
Religion, 165 ff,; Easter in the Greek Church, 51, 61; social divisions, effect of religion on, 34; of the Tartars, 53, 80; toleration between Tartar and Slav, 6, 54; the village church, 107, 108; the village priest, 109, 110
Restaurants, 18
Revolution, the, of 1904–1905, 192; Chinese, 269 ff., 273, 303
Revolutionary party, the, 106
Rivers. See Transport
Roads. See Transport
Russo-Japanese War, the, 21, 102, 192, 252, 298
Sable, decrease in numbers of, 164
Saghalien, 190
Sajansk Mountains, the, 49, 94
Salayersk, 219
Samara, 5
Samoyedes, the, 137, 172, 198, 201, 202
Sasonoff, M., 295
Semipalatinsk, 208, 220, 253
Senin, 269
Sibir, Khanate of, 171, 174, 201, 263
Silver mining, 219, 220
Sir Darya, the, 9
Soboleff, Professor, 261, 271, 276, 278, 283
Social distinctions and tendencies in Siberia, 32, 34, 37
Soiots, the, 203
Stock-raising. See Live stock
Stroganof, 175
Sudjensk, 254
Sugar, importation of, 258
Surgut, 136
Sweden, trade of, with Siberia, 19
Tarbagatai, 267
Tariffs, 29, 31, 8s, 238, 239, 258, 268
Tartars, Abakansk, 50, 53, 80, 123, 20 ; absorption of, by Slavs, 6, 38; Altaians, 140, 147 ff., 201, 203; Chulim, 203; Kazan, 80, 153, 201; Khanate, the, 136, 174 ff.; Kirghiz, 201; Russification of, 19, 52, 54, 143, 145 ff.; 153, 197; social classification of, 34; subjugation of, 174 ff.; Tobolsk, 80, 177, 201; Tomsk, 201; tribal system of, 199
Tashkent, 254
Tavda, 255
Taxation, 132, 195, 198 ff., 233; guild taxes, 33; exemption granted to immigrants, 187; on foreign capital, 243; in Mongolia, 271, 292
Telengets, the, 203
Teluts, the, 203
Thai tsu, 264
Timber, 14, 19, 30, 112, 135, 215 ff.; 238, 255, 259
Tiumen, 11, 221, 249, 251, 255
Tobol River, the, 7, 11, 15, 176
Tobolsk, 8, 135, 208, 221, 222, 249, 255
Tomsk, 11, 74, 85, 209, 222, 223, 249
Trade, guilds, 33; methods of, 21, 31, 213, 231; Minister of, 194; Russo-Chinese, 266, 267, 275 ff.
Transport, development of, 20, 31; roads, 16, 22, 40, 42; waterways, 13, 250, 256 ff. See Railways
Tribal system among the Tartars, 199
Tunguse, the, 264
Tura, 255
Turkestan, Russian, 10
Turukhansk, 19
Tyukalinsk, 255
Ufa, 6, 251
Ugrians, the, 136, 172 ff.
Ulankhom, 277
Uliassutai, 267, 269, 274
United States, trade of, with Siberia, 19
Ural Mountains, the, 6, 8, 14, 206
Urban Affairs, Department of, 194
Urga, 267, 274
Urumtsi, 267
Vierny, 254
Voguls, the, 201, 203
Volga, the, 5
Wages, 36, 246
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie, 32
Water-supply, 50
Webster, Captain, 31, 25
White Sea, the, 254
Wiggin, Captain, 31, 257
Women, position of, 129
Wool trade, the, 145 ff., 275, 277, 285 ff.
Yalutorofsk, 255
Yenisei River, the, 15, 16, 56, 84, 207, 253, 257
Yeniseisk, 136
Yermak, 136, 175, 182, 201, 263
Zemstvo, the, 195
Zeminogorsk, 219
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