Analysis Of Modern Russia's Siberian Migration

Siberia, the eastern border area of Russia, is famous for its specific geographic position and vastest territory in the world, while immigration is prerequisite to the exploitation of the border. Therefore, the immigration into Siberia plays an important part among the study of Russian history. So far, the internal and external science of history mostly has a preference for Siberia' s conquered history, economy and ethnic group, as to immigration, only has a few records but lack systematic and special research, especially on Russian modern immigration towards Siberia. It has been hundreds of years since Russia expanded to Siberia, thus the significance of immigration research can' t be neglected. In a word, the whole article will be addressed with five parts, which argues about the historical process and the effect of neoteric immigration from Russia to Siberia and probes some important issues concerning immigration.Part I is the preface, which introduces the survey for the study of internal and external science of history on Siberia' s immigration as well as the purpose of this article.Part II lists the process of modern Russian immigrationtowards Siberia which is illustrated in three periods:The first period, immigration and exile existed simultaneously, the time of feudalism. The second period, immigration was limited to an amount after the reform of serf policy. The third period, immigration came to the climax from the end of 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.Part III analyzed the impact of immigration, which could be stated from the following four aspects:It promotes the exploitation of Siberia, accelerates the development of Russian capitalism, alleviates domestic conflicts, consolidates Russian frontier defense which prepares bases for Russian expansion to the Pacific Ocean and its contend for hegemony to far east.Part IV is about pondering on Siberia immigration, which completely assures its advantages and draws some attentions on this topic.The last part sums up the historical result of modern Russian immigration to Siberia.