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Can you really see Russia from Alaska? - Slate
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Bering Strait - Wikipedia  The Bering Strait is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north. It is located between Russia and the United States. ... the Strait. The village in Little Diomede has a school which belongs to Alaska's Bering Strait School District.
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How far is Russia from Alaska? | Reference.com  The body of water that separates Russia and Alaska is known as the Bering Straight. ... During the winter, an ice bridge connects the Big Diomede and Little Diomede islands, allowing for passage between Alaska and Russia by foot.
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Can you really see Russia from Alaska? - Slate  Sep 15, 2008 ... Yes. Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States.
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Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia  A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge and/or tunnel spanning the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia  The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867 by a treaty ... Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without compensation in ... While Alaska attracted little interest at the time, the population of nearby British Columbia...
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Alaska boundary dispute - Wikipedia  The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the ... In 1825 Russia and Britain signed a treaty to define the borders of their ... a stretch of the Alaskan Panhandle from Cross Sound to 54-40 was given to the .... Instead of accepting either the American or the British claim in toto, the line...
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Russia - The Ural Mountains | history - geography | Britannica.com  Aug 19, 2016 ... Although the Urals form the traditional boundary between Europe and ... Russia's remaining territory, to the south and east, constitutes about one-fourth of the country's ... and southeastern Siberia along the line of the Stanovoy Range. ... Amur drainage systems, which flow to the Arctic and Pacific oceans,...
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Siberia  Siberia (Russian Sibir'), vast region comprising the Asian portion of Russia as ... is even larger than Canada, which is the second largest country in the world after Russia. ... Between the Yenisey and Lena rivers lies the Central Siberian Plateau, with ... And to the east is a complex system of mountain ranges and uplands...
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Bering Strait - World Atlas  Map of Bering Strait - Bering Strait Map, World Strait Locations ... The official boundary between the United States and Russia lies at the tip of the red arrow;...
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Can you really see Russia from Alaska? - Slate  Sep 15, 2008 ... ... are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated ... At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, ... Ratmanov Island, as it's known to the Russians) is on the other side of the...
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Alaska's Heritage - CHAPTER 3-1: RUSSIANS COME TO ALASKA  Tsar, or emperor, Peter the Great ruled Russia between 1689 and 1725. ... Bering was a Dane who had enlisted in the Russian navy in 1703, when he was about ... Tsar Peter ordered Bering to go to Russia's Pacific coast, build ships, and sail ... He had been sent to find out for himself if the continents were separated, not to...
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The Strategic Importance of the North Pacific Area - JStor  ALTHOUGH it is in the North Pacific area that the continents of. America ... The two continents approach one another most closely at Bering. Strait ... form an arc enclosing the Sea of Japan, on the Russian shore of which is ... The southern ports of Alaska, Skagway, Juneau, .... probably prevent access to Vladivostok by sea.
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Boundaries between continents - Wikipedia  This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede ... At their nearest points, Alaska and Russia are...
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Turgenev in Nineteenth Century America - jstor  he was negotiating the purchase of Alaska from the Russians. (1867), generally ... bury, who in his contempt of European realism and preference ... of Russian authors that few Americans or Britishers went to ... .The fact comes clear that Turgenev was more widely read in .... 14 C. E. Norton, "Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.".
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Alaska: Russia's Folly | History Today  The US $7.2 million cheque used to pay for Alaska (worth $121 million ... A country just recovering from a murderous civil war could hardly be excited .... Even before the establishment of the Russian American Company, ... 'In vain we annexed Texas, California and Alaska and reach north for Canada or south for Cuba.'.
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Alaskan Oil Fields Provide Cool Jobs For A Hardy Breed ...  Sep 22, 1987 ... PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA  First the good news for the folks who work ... the bonanza strike that feeds America`s famous Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Here at the north end of the 800-mile-long pipeline that connects the fields on Alaska`s Arctic coast with the far-away Pacific port city of ... Now the bad news.
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What's the distance between Russia and the US at their closest point?  Apr 2, 2014 ... The Bering Strait links the icy Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point...
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TRAVEL ALASKA  Dry Pixel  Mar 12, 2014 ... The first visitors to this harsh environment of the north are thought to ... linked Siberia and North America approximately 3000 years ago1. ... This is one example of the differences between Inupik and the ... Dances and festivals ... Peter the Great was Czar of Russia in 1724 when he sent a Danish explorer,...
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Learn About Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway - Geography  Learn about the Trans-Siberian Railway from the expert Geography ... Russia, crosses into Asia, and reaches the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok. ... Vladivostok, the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, is the largest Russian port...
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Aleutian History  Apr 5, 2001 ... The Aleutians are a chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the ... Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. The archipelago consists of 14 large islands, ... The oldest and largest, settled 1760-75, is Unalaska, the former ... In 1741 the Russians sent out Vitus Bering, a Dane, and Aleksey...