Russians and the development of Eurasia. Russian north, Siberia and southern borders

The book is dedicated to the history of three large original groups of the Russian people: the Russian North, Siberian old -timers and Cossacks. Materials on their origin, anthropology and genetics, the role in the development of new lands and the protection of the Russian state, are described about their culture and life, participation in the civil war and the subsequent erasing of ethnic identity. All the main groups of the Russian Cossacks are highlighted in detail: Don and Khopar Cossacks, Volga (Volg) and Astrakhan Cossacks, Grebensky and Terek Cossacks, Caucasian linear, Black Sea and Kuban Cossacks, Ural and Orenburg Cossacks, Cossacks of Siberia - Siberian linear, Semirechensky, Yenisei and Yakutskie Cossacks. , Transbaikal, Cossacks of the Far East - Amur and Ussuri. The author believes that the Cossacks living on their own land and preserving Cossack traditions have a historical future