Editing Frontier (section)

== Russia ==
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The expansion of [[Russia]] to the north, south ([[Wild Fields]]) and east ([[Siberia]], the [[Russian Far East]] and [[Russian Alaska]]) exploited ever-changing frontier regions over several centuries and often involved the development and settlement of [[Cossack]] communities.<ref>
{{cite book
| last1 = Richards
| first1 = John F.
| author-link1 = John F. Richards
| chapter = 7: Frontier Settlement in Russia
| title = The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HQ5KbXYhEB8C
| series = California world history library
| volume = 1
| edition = reprint
| location = Berkeley
| publisher = University of California Press
| publication-date = 2003
| page = 263
| isbn = 9780520230750
| access-date = 2016-08-15
| quote = Discharged and unemployed or deserting servicemen, younger sons and other dependents of men already in frontier service in older areas, fleeing criminals, sedentarized steppe Tatars, and cossacks took up residence in or near the new centers. Decade after decade, however, peasants fleeing to the frontier made up the largest category of migrants. [...] The more venturesome Russian migrants avoided the frontier towns and peasant villages in favor of life as cossacks (from the Turkic ''kazak'', meaning 'free man').
}}
</ref>