A Landscape Map of the Northwest of the Russian Plain at 1:1,000,000

The author discusses the natural environment and problems of settlement of the Far East by the Russians in the period 1870–1917, with special emphasis on the characteristics of Cossack overland settlement and the maritime transport of peasant settlers from European Russia. The locational pattern of cities, urban growth and the sequence of rural settlement are analyzed. Pokshshevskiy discussed his general approach to the geographic study of migrations in his paper at the 18th International Geographical Congress in Rio de Janeiro. His views on the historical-geographic treatment of migration study were given in his 1951 book on the settlement of Siberia, to which the present paper is related.