Baidarka (from Russian diminutive form of baidar "boat", bairdarka sense "small boat") A type of sea kayak originally made by the Aleut people of Alaska.Elektrichka (Russian: электри́чка, Ukrainian: електри́чка, elektrychka, informal word for elektropoezd ...
to 1917, transforming Russia into a major European power.Peter the Greatmodernized the nation through Western-style reforms, while Catherine the Great expanded territory and promoted cultural development. The empire reached its territorial peak in the 19th century, stretching from Poland to Alaska. ...
Irkutsk was founded in the 1661 as a fort to colonize Siberia. It was the main Russian fort behind the Ural Mountains, so it was there that all expeditions to colonize Kamchatka and Alaska began. The city is an important administrative, economic, business, scientific and cultural centre of Ea...