6. Answer the following questions:

• What Governor was the first to suggest the division of the Russian Far East into separate areas?

• What is the difference between the Primorye Oblast and the Priamurye General Governorship?

• When did Khabarovka get a status of a city?

• Who was the first Governor-General of Siberian General-Governorship?

• What did the extraordinary powers mean?

•How many Governors-General were in the history of the imperial Russian Far East?

•What were their main activities there?

6. Speak about the Governors-General of Eastern Siberia.

7. Study the table. Which Governors-General are familiar to you? Why?

8. Explain why the initials of some Governors-General are italicized.

Генерал-губернаторы Восточной Сибири	Н. Н. Муравьев-Амурский (с 1847 по 1861 г.) М. С. Корсаков (с 1861 по 1871 г.) Н. П. Синельников (с 1871 по 1875 г.) П. А. Фредерикс (с 1875 по 1880 г.) Д. Г. Анучин (с 1880 по 1884 г.)
Военные генерал-губернаторы Приморской области	П. В. Казакевич (с 1856 по 1865 г.) И. В. Фуругельм (с 1865 по 1871 г.) А. Е. Краун (с 1871 по 1875 г.) Г. Ф. Эрдман (с 1875 по 1880 г.) М. П. Тихменев (с 1880 по 1881 г.) И. Г. Баранов (с 1881 по 1888 г.) П. Ф. Унтербергер (с 1888 по 1897 г.) Д. И. Суботич (с 1897 по 1898 г.) Н. М. Чичагов (с 1899 по 1903 г.) А. М. Колюбакин (с 1903 по 1905 г.) В. Е. Флуг (с 1905 по 1909 г.) М. М. Манакин (с 1911 по 1914 гг.) А. Д. Сташевский (с 1914 по 1915 г.) В. А. Толмачев (с 1916 по 1917 г.)
Генерал- губернаторы Приамурского края	1.А. Н. Корф (с 1884 по 1893 г.) 2.С. М. Духовской (с 1893 по 1898 г.) 3.Н. И. Гродеков (с 1898 по 1902 г.) 4.Д. И. Суботич (с 1902 по 1903 г.) 5.Н. П. Линевич (с 1903 по 1904 г.) 6.Р. А. Хрещатицкий (с 1904 по 1905 г.) 7.П. Ф. Унтербергер (1905 по 1910 г.) 8.Н. Л. Гондатти (с 1910 по 1917 г.)

9. Read the article about Nikolay Ivanovich Grodekov. Nikolay Ivanovich Grodekov (1843 – 1913)

In 1994 (the year of the 100 years anniversary) the Local Lore Museum got back the name of N.I. Grodekov, the honored citizen of Khabarovsk, the first Head of PDIRGS, the Governor-General of the Amur Territory, the explorer and the active creator of the museum reserves.

The forming of the Khabarovsk Local Lore Museum is closely connected with the name of the first Head of the Priamurskiy department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (PDIRGS) Governor-General N. I. Grodekov.

Thanks to his vast knowledge, energy, "ardent love to the museum study" the library and the museum with natural-historical and art collections were established by the Priamursky department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (PDIRGS). From 1902 till 1922 the museum had the name of N.I. Grodekov "true leader and inspirer" of the museum study in the Russian Far East.

The Museum was opened on the initiative of the Priamursky department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (PDIRGS) on April 19, 1894. By the beginning of the 20^th century the Grodekov museum "attracted the attention of all donators" in Khabarovsk and became the head museum in the Priamursky Territory.

A stone tortoise, brought from the settlement of Nikolskoye (Ussurijsk) and weighting 6,4 tons, was set up at the museum. Grodekov presented the museum a collection of postage stamps and stuffed birds from the Phillippines.

A lot of other exhibits were brought by the residents of Khabarovsk.

On August 1, 1900 the museum was opened. Its collections were exposed in Russian and international exhibitions in Novgorod, Kazan, Chicago and Paris. V.K. Arsenyev, the famous traveller, scientist and writer, the important museum figure, had been heading the Khabarovsk Local Lore Museum for more than 10 years (1910-1919 and 1924-1925).

For that period the museum became the centre of lore studies in the Territory. In 2000 the N.I. Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Lore Museum has been given the status of the scientific institution and the title "The best museum of the year 2000". The museum is a member of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Nowadays the museum reserves include more than 328.438 thousand items. Many of them are exposed in 12 sections of the museum. Annually the museum is visited by 180.000 people. More than 2500 excursions, lectures and lessons are given here. 9 moving exhibitions are displayed in the museum and in other cultural-educational institutions of the city. 

10. Speak about N. I. Grodekov.

11. Explain why the N.I. Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Lore Museum was granted the title: “The best museum of the year 2000".

12. Have you been to the N.I. Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Lore Museum? What exhibition hall impressed you most of all? Why?

13. Scan the text.