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Sibiriak|sɪˈbɪrjæk|
Also Sibiryak.
[Russ. Sibiryák Siberian.]
A Siberian descended from European Russian settlers. Also attrib. or as adj.
1903W. Gerrare Greater-Russia viii. 105 The Siberiaks, as the descendants of the early settlers in the west province are called, are of average height. 1916M. A. Czaplicka My Siberian Year xii. 243 The Sibiriak—that is, broadly speaking, the colonial whose ancestors have been settling in Siberia, voluntarily or involuntarily, since, say, the end of the Middle Ages. Ibid. 245 An anthology of Sibiriak songs..would provide an illuminating document for the student of Siberian life. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 726/1 There were long-established Russian peasant societies in certain parts of Siberia, in many cases the descendants of exiled religious dissidents. Such people, known as Sibiryaks or ‘local Russians’, have a culture and an outlook differing markedly from those of the people of European Russia. |