The Russian-Manchu border conflicts (1643-1689) were a series of intermittent skirmishes between the Manchus and the Cossacks in which the Cossacks tried and failed to gain the land north of the Amur River. The hostilities culminated in the Manchu storm of the Cossack fort of Albazin (1685) and resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk, concluded between the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire in 1689.
This article concerns the southeast corner of Siber...
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The Russian-Manchu border conflicts (1643-1689) were a series of intermittent skirmishes between the Manchus and the Cossacks in which the Cossacks tried and failed to gain the land north of the Amur River. The hostilities culminated in the Manchu storm of the Cossack fort of Albazin (1685) and resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk, concluded between the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire in 1689.
This article concerns the southeast corner of Siberia south of the Stanovoy Mountains which was twice contested between Russia and China. Hydrologically, the Stanovoy Mountains separate the rivers that flow north into the Arctic from those that flow south into the Amur River. Ecologically, the area is the southeastern edge of the Siberian boreal forest with some areas good for agriculture. Socially and politically, from about 600 AD, it was the northern fringe of the Chinese-Korean-Manchu world. Various Chinese, Korean and Manchu-like states would claim sovereignty, build forts and collect...
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