Meeting of frontiers

• Main Author: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress 1999
• Subjects: United States > Territorial expansion; Russia > Territorial expansion; West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration; Northwest; Pacific > Discovery and exploration; Alaska > Discovery and exploration; Siberia (Russia) > Discovery and exploration; Russian Far East (Russia) > Discovery and exploration; United States > Relations > Russia; Russia > Relations > United States; Pacific; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000040

Multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Title from home page as viewed on Oct. 15, 1999. Offered as part of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. Features the collections of the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, the National Library of Russia, the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, St. Herman's Theological Seminary, and other libraries and cultural institutions in Siberia and the Russian Far East. In English and Russian.