Дача Беломестных
The place
Дача Беломестных ("the Belomestnykh dacha") in Amur Oblast, Tyndinsky/Skovorodino area (Upper Amur, BAM, Russian Far East Siberia, Russia), at 305 m elevation, Russian Far East taiga. Continuous Russian Far East cluster (batches 260-373). Secondary house / trapper's and fisherman's dacha (the surname Belomestnykh, a historic Siberian Cossack name), located near the Amur (a 4,444 km river shared with China), the BAM (Baikal-Amur Mainline, 4,324 km, 1974-1984, an iconic Soviet project under Brezhnev built by 33,000 workers), the Amur's roughly 30,000 fish species, the AmurGES hydroelectric dam (1972, an iconic project), and the heritage of the Russian Far East (Amur Cossacks and the 1854 annexation under Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky; Vladivostok founded in 1860 at the end of the Opium Wars and its concessions; the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, ending in defeat and the humiliating 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth for Nicholas II, hastening the 1905 revolution).
The setting
Amur Oblast, Tyndinsky/Skovorodino, Upper Amur, BAM, Russian Far East Siberia, Russia, 305 m, Russian Far East taiga, continuous cluster batches 260-373, secondary house / trapper's and fisherman's dacha, Belomestnykh, a Siberian Cossack name, plus the Amur, 4,444 km, plus the BAM, 4,324 km, 1974-1984, an iconic Soviet project under Brezhnev built by 33,000 workers, plus roughly 30,000 fish species in the Amur, plus the AmurGES dam of 1972, Russian Far East heritage: Amur Cossacks and the 1854 annexation under Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky, Vladivostok founded in 1860 at the end of the Opium Wars and its concessions, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, a humiliation for Nicholas II that hastened the 1905 revolution.
