They have been most helpful and are much appreciated. However, with the assistance of Russian scholars, U.S. Library of Congress has created a Web site featuring thousands of rare and previously unpublished items that display remarkable parallels among peoples and histories seemingly a world apart. The site, Meeting of Frontiers , chronicles the exploration, development, and settlement of Siberia, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest. Initially, the site incorporates approximately 30,000 images and recordings, principally from collections of films, manuscripts, maps, rare books, and sound recordings at the Library of Congress. It will be expanded over the next three years as Russian libraries begin to contribute materials to the site.
Text is offered in Russian and English.
For those interested in a comparative history of the American and the Russian North as viewed by Euro-Americans, it is an exploration well worth visiting. You will find a link to it in our section on History and Culture .