In a long period of three hundred years,the government of Czar considered Siberia as a domestic colony and pursued a policy of punitively reclaiming and cultivating wasteland.

• 在300余年的漫长岁月中,沙皇政府视西伯利亚为"国内殖民地",在西伯利亚长期奉行"惩罚式的垦殖"政策。