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The USA.

Music Greetings, comrades, and welcome to Siberia.

We're going to be talking about the Russian expansion towards it

and inside of it for this episode episode because, well, like I promise

you this time, I want to deal with these episodes properly. Last time I looked at the more

of a political side and how people viewed it. This time we're going to be taking a look at

how they actually achieved their exploration conquest and everything.

And first, like any good podcaster of history will tell you,

we need to talk a bit about geography.

The territory of Siberia stretches from the Ural Mountains for some 4,500 kilometers,

approximately, give or take, a hundred or or so to the Pacific coast, which is roughly

the distance across North America at the latitude of the Great Lakes.

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