For the first time since the October Revolution a member of regional government was elected as ataman, a military chief of Cossacks in southern Siberia’s republic of Buryatia and eastern Siberia ...

Cossacks led by Yermak Timofeyevich wade into ... of a 1580 expedition by Yermak and 840 of his men to open up tracts of Siberia to the lucrative trade in animal furs. The painting is based ...