Green wedge. How Ukrainians mastered the wild lands of the Far East
Mykola Nemchenko , "present" Once vast lands in the Far East of Russia were called the New Ukraine, Green Ukraine, Far Eastern Ukraine or-most often-a green wedge. Latvians, Estonians, Belarusians, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, small indigenous peoples and Russians lived here. But the largest ethnic group in the green wedge in the late XIX - early XX centuries were Ukrainians. For thousands of kilometers from the banks of the Dnieper, they felt a connection with Ukraine.