Description

This volume is a study of the Ussuriysk District in the Amur Region of the Russian Far East. The author, I. P. Nadarov, was a noted expert who wrote extensively on this region. The book is based on local lectures held at the Society for the Study of the Amur Region (affiliated with the Imperial Russian Geographical Society), which was organized in 1884 under the patronage of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich. The society eventually built a museum and library in Vladivostok, which focused on ethnographic collections from native cultures in ...