Why Did Russia Take Siberia?

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[ivanhashev]

Siberia is very rich to resources (oil, probably gold and even diamonds)

[EmilSosnin]

As a half Russian half Tatar from Tomsk this is *extremely* simplified

[MrManWithPlan]

Fun fact. Siberia has 36 million people in it.
While Russia’s population looks small its European portion is about the average European country. It’s really only underpopulated in northern Siberia

[jfpqonw]

In Siberia we have now big cities with millions of people

[tekamer]

Ironically unlike the American natives the Siberian native population only fell for a short duration of time and in fact began to grow rapidly quite quickly thereafter

[DashingSteel]

Siberia was the seat of power for Khan Kutchum, direct descendant of Genghis Khan. When you get conquered by Mongols for literal centuries and have to take your own country back sword in hand you tend to hold a bit of a grudge.

[viktormadzov]

Dont forget that controlling that much territory would gave Russia control of many natural resorces like heavy metals, oil and uranium, all of which would come in very handy when industrialization and the modern age become a thing.
That size has a lot more bennefits then just "projecting power"😅

[YesPlatinum]

The two biggest countries in the world both literally just took a bunch of barren northern land for themselves 💀

[aljontimbreza]

Russia expanded to Siberia because they lack natural barriers against invaders. Unlike Italy with Alps, or Spain/France with Pyrenees mountain range.

[madnesscombat]

Для запада вся восточная РФ это сибирь?

[yoerigroothuis]

Calling the Asian part of Russia just plainly ‘Siberia’ makes me doubt the whole video clip tbh

[varwarvar]

Bro fuck you mean, Siberian conquest tooks years and thousands of lives from both sides.

[askaralibek]

At least try to search from GPT. Russia's conquest of Siberia often was a private mission of fur-hunting companies. Back in 17-18th centuries the market of furs was the most lucrative. So several companies were exploring and conquering Siberia, just like British Ost India company which autonomously conquering India for profits.

[ryanrzjr]

Missing a very major factor, warm ports. Russia was hoping that going further along to the pacific would eventually lead them to a warm water port which could see constant trade. Most of their ports were prone to freezing over. They would get this with Vladivostok, but they also eventually managed to secure one by taking Crimea from the Ottomans.

[killerqueenisbestmanneko]

Historical revisionism moment. The russian conquest of lands past the urals occurred in many stages over centuries. The 1st stages were to create a buffer between russia and possible invadors. The second wave was about resources. Furs, timber and eventually oil. Finally outer manchuria was attained after the opium wars similarly to how UK had HK.

Note siberia is only one administrative district. Others include the Urals and the russian far east. Russia has diffrent intrests with each administrative region in modern day

[burn]

Fun fact of how it happened:
Russia: wanna join us?
Siberians: ok
Russia: now we're brothers, let's ride the bear
Siberians: *sounds of no regrets

[rutabega]

The simple answer is that Russia had no access to colonizing elsewhere like the other European powers, so to gain prestige they went the only direction they could

[tdyd]

Traditionally empires did not care for empty land.

[mihanich]

There are some paradise-like places in Siberia like Altai (it's literally like Switzerland but way bigger) but OK there's "nothing"

[mikaelerola]

Siberia has very rich resources. So rich that other big countrys can only dream about them