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    Russian Tsar Nicholas I decides to "solve" Russia's "Jewish problem" by forcibly relocating all Russian Jews to Siberia in 1835

    I'd venture to say both the ones closest to the western border particularly the former Congress Polish western border would have equally high priority as the most easterly settlements. I reason that the motivating factor in doing an interior expulsion, rather than an exterior expulsion, or a...
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    Russian Tsar Nicholas I decides to "solve" Russia's "Jewish problem" by forcibly relocating all Russian Jews to Siberia in 1835

    Apart from the farming necessary to sustain ~1 million people I guess logging, trapping, and supplying the trappers I imagine, much of the population will be put to work as the early penal settlers were, building the most basic infrastructure necessary to populate the area, clearing forests...
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