• The Altai-Sayan region is an area of Inner Asia proximate to the Altai Mountains and the Sayan Mountains, near to where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan...
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    Russia portal Altai Republic Altai Krai Altay Prefecture Govi-Altai Province Altaic languages Altay language Altai-Sayan region List of Altai mountains Graeme...
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    angle to the Western Sayan for 650 km (400 mi) in a roughly northeast/southwest direction between the Shapshal Range of the Eastern Altai in the west and the...
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    five dominant Turco-Mongol tribal confederations (khanates) in the Altai-Sayan region during the 12th century. They had converted to the Church of the East...
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    1952), Head of the Altai Republic, in Russia, from January 13, 1998, to January 19, 2002 Russia portal Music of Altai Altai-Sayan region Law #92 Official...
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    Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, potentially in Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva. Initially, Proto-Turkic speakers were potentially...
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    Plateau, Hindu Kush, parts of the Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau to the Altai-Sayan region and South Siberian Mountains. It inhabits rocky montane grasslands...
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    Neolithic/Bronze Age Yakutia, and Krasnoyarsk groups of Eastern Siberia and the Altai-Sayan region. They may be linked to the early spread of Proto-Uralic speakers and...
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    mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia. The range rises in the Altai-Sayan region of the South Siberian Mountains, northwest of Mongolia. The Siberian...
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    described the Sayan raising reindeer with the Tochi (Todzhi) from the Sayan to the Altai mountain ranges. The descendants of the Ak-Sayan and Kara-Sayan live mostly...
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    part of the Altai-Sayan region forms a Last Glacial refugium. In both the Last Glacial and modern times, the eastern Altai-Sayan region has supported...
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    Okladnikov Cave (category Landforms of Altai Krai)
    Cave is one of the most extensively studied Paleolithic sites in the Altai-Sayan region. A rich Mousterian stone industry, dating to between 33,000 and 44...
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    groups in Yakutia (Yakutia_LNBA) and Krasnoyarsk (kra001) in the Altai-Sayan region. These populations are sometimes described as "Neo-Siberians" and...
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    Altai-Sayan region List of ecoregions in Russia List of ecoregions in Mongolia List of ecoregions in China List of ecoregions in Kazakhstan "Altai montane...
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    impacted the continent with flood basalts during the Late Devonian. The Altai-Sayan region was shaken by volcanism in the Early and Middle Devonian, while Late...
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    parts of Central Asia corresponding to eastern Kazakhstan or the Altai-Sayan region, had, beginning in the 10th century BC and lasting until the 9th to...
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    parts of Central Asia corresponding to eastern Kazakhstan or the Altai-Sayan region, and who had, beginning in the 10th century BC and lasting until the...
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    colonization of the steppe area only began after about 1860. Siberia portal Altai-Sayan region Barabinsk Steppe Kanas Lake Great Lakes Depression Saylyugemsky National...
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    still in the Altai-Sayan region, averaging 6.5 m (21 ft). Rarely, nests are recorded in shrubs in treeless regions. A nest in Altai-Sayan was reportedly...
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    us about the common legacy of the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Altai-Sayan region. 89.5% of Zabolotnie Tatar males are carrying the Y-DNA haplogroup...
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    around the Tunka Goltsy relocate to the Lena River. Several additional Altai-Sayan region tribes later arrived on the Lena to flee from the Mongols. The subsequent...
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  • or entertainment (katajjaqs of Inuit). Among some peoples of the Altai-Sayan region, including Tofa, the ability to mimic sounds of the environment includes...
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  • is a genus of insects in the family Grylloblattidae found in the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia. It contains 3 species restricted to montane environments...
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  • Peridotite, as in Quebec and Rhodesia. Other deposits exist in the Altai-Sayan region. The Ural reserves are about 17,500,000 tonnes of fiber with more...
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    the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar Region), Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative centre...
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    treeline in the high ranges of the Western Sayan Mountains, in the Altai Republic, and the Eastern Sayan Mountains, reaching almost to Irkutsk. There...
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    only wrestler from Russia currently competing in professional sumo. Altai-Sayan region List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies List of Tuvans...
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  • the taiga-steppe zone of southern Siberia and Mongolia around the Altai-Sayan region. Early contact with Mongolic languages also points to this area. Genetic...
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  • Forum'. In reciprocity for help during fieldwork in Mongolia and the Altai-Sayan region, she formed the agency Inner Asian Music, toured musicians from those...
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    Lake Baikal and north of the Gobi Desert, also referred to as the Altai-Sayan region. The Nestorian Metropolitan, upon the conversion of the Turco-mongolic...
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