Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639–1856

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INDEX Aborigines. See Natives Abyshtov, Captain: founds Captain's Clearing, 81 Admiralty College: orders shipbuilding at Okhotsk, 103; on causes of shipwrecks, 132; orders disuse of Lopatka Channel, 135; orders sending of cats to Petropavlovsk, 140; mentioned, 134, 172 Agricultural implements: Kamchatka's imports of, 204; Udsk's imports of, 204 Agricultural settlement in Siberia: methods of, 155; inducements to, 156; organization of, 157; numbers in, 157; success of, 157; regions of, 157, 159 -on Okhotsk Seaboard and Kamchatka Peninsula: causes of, 160; more necessary in Kamchatka than at Okhotsk, 160; beginnings of, 16061 ; monastic, 160-62; state, 162-68; livestock for, 164, 165, 167; peasants for, 164-68; numbers in, 168 Agriculture in Siberia: causes of, 155 -on Okhotsk Seaboard and Kamchatka Peninsula: causes of, 155; perspective of, 159; organization and type of, 169-70; production of, 17184 ; abandonment of, 176, 196-97, 198-99; physical problems of, 18592 ; conflicts with fishing, 190, 195, 197, 199, 203; cultural problems of, 192-201; conflicts with trapping, 197, 199; neglect of, 197-98, 203, 208, 210; discouraged by officials, 199200 , 200; lax supervision of, 200, 202; Kamchatka's attempts at improvement of, 202-15; summary of, 221 Ainus. See Kurilians Alachak Portage, 143 Alaska: fur trade in, xv; occupation of, 23-24; transshipment to, 96; mentioned , xvii, XViill, 17,24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 33, 93, 96, 102, 115, 128, 132, 135, 148, 18611, 219 Albazin: founding of, 9 Aldan Basin, 115 Aldan Okrug: cattle raising in, 70 Aldan River: ferry charges on, 93; founding of Yakut town along, 142; mentioned, 8, 9, 79, 82, 87, 101, 115, 116, 117, 119, 123, 124, 143, 144, 145, 149, 150 Aldan Track. See Yakutsk-Okhotsk Track Aldoma River, 144, 145 Aleutian Islands, 17, 23, 30, 32, 33, 5111, 131, 133 Aleuts: exploitation of, 31; mentioned, 32 Allakh-Yun: size of, 146; mentioned, 145 311 312 INDEX AIlakh-Yun River: meaning of, 116; mentioned, 89n, 115, 142, 144 America: buffalo in, xvii; mentioned, 5, 17, 23, 40, 69, 102, 137, 225 American Company. See Golikov-Shelekhov Company Amga River, 117, 144 Amginsk: agriculture at, 70; peasant settlement at, 165; abandonment of agriculture at, 198n; mentioned, 82, 85, 157 Amur Basin. See Amuria Amur country. See Amuria Amuria: definition of, xviii; preoccupation with, 9, 152; loss of, 9, 159,225; as source of sables, 27; perception of, 151; as source of provisions, 159; reacquisition of, 159, 215, 224; mentioned , 40, 65, 67, 68, 85, 151, 151n, 219 Amur River: acquisition of, xviii; mentioned , 63, 150, 151 Amur Valley. See Amuria Anadyr Basin. See Chukotka Anadyr River, 16 Anadyrsk: Kamchatka's connections with, xviii; Okhotsk Seaboard's connections with, xviii; abandonment of, xviii, 16; description of, 16; founding of, 16; foxes of, 197; shortage of grain at, 223n; mentioned, 9, 11, 12, 14, 60, 79, 121n, 164, 203, 223n Ancha River: bear traps along, 119 Angara-Ilima-Lena district. See Ilimsk Uyezd Angara-Ilim-Lena agricultural region, 157 Angara River, 62, 63, 68, 69 Anne, empress of Russia, 167 Anthrax: diminishes summer traffic on Yakutsk-Okhotsk Track, 88, 91; horse losses from, 120; mentioned, 121, 191 Antipin, surveyor: surveys YakutskOkhotsk river route, 82 Apachinsk Banks: peasant settlement at, 167; location of, 167 Archangel. See Arkhangelsk Arctic Ocean, 5n, 11 Argals. See Mountain sheep Arkhangelsk, 25, 27, 132 Asia: Russian interest in, 225; mentioned , 5, 43 Asiatic Russia, 46 Askew Spit: nature of, 126-27; mentioned , 145 Astrakhan: conquest of, 4 Atlantic Ocean, 3 Atlantic Seaboard, 40 Atlasov, Vladimir: conquers Kamchatka , 9; death of, 12 Avacha Bay: nature of, 35, 130; disadvantages of, 130; fogbound entrance to, 135; mentioned, 13 Avacha River: agricultural experiments along, 213; company farm along, 214; founding of model farm along, 215 Ayan: renaming of, 85; rise of, 93; advantages of, 149; meaning of, 149; soil at, 149n; disadvantages of, 149, 150; coal deposit near, 151; average growing season temperature at, 188; attack on, 225; mentioned, 81, 82, 85, 129, 145, 150 Ayan Bay: location of, 149; mentioned, 144, 145 Ayan Port. See Ayan Ayan Road. See Yakutsk-Ayan route Badarans: definition of, 117 Baidara: definition and nature of, 30-31 Baidarka: definition of, 31 Baikalia: preoccupation with, 9; location of, 63; agriculture in, 69; as source of provisions, 69-70; mentioned , 40, 50, 68, 71, 72, 73, 138, 151, 220 Baishev, Ivan: finds new track from Yakutsk to Okhotsk, 142; mentioned, 142, 143 Bakhborodin: reconnoiters new Yakutsk -Okhotsk river route, 143 Balagans: definition of, 39, 136 Balk, Commandant: seeks better site for...