From Frontier to Borderland: Border Actors in Orenburg Province, 1735-75

This article examines the rise of borderland actors in Russia’s Orenburg province in the mid-eighteenth century. Established in the 1730s and the 1740s, the fortified line along the Iaik River became a hard border separating Russian-controlled Bashkiria and the Kazakh-Kalmyk steppes to the south. U...

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Published in:	Вивліоѳика
Main Author:	Colum Leckey
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Illinois Open Publishing Network 2022-12-01
Subjects:	Orenburg, borderlands, Orenburg Expedition, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Tatars, Zunghars, Stavropol on the Volga
Online Access:	https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/vivliofika/article/view/1149