place
Semipalatinsk Province
Semipalatinsk
also: Семипалатинская область, Семипалатинскую
A steppe province of Russian Central Asia (present-day eastern Kazakhstan), recommended by Chekhov to Smagin, alongside the Ussuri territory, as a warmer resettlement destination for famine-displaced Ukrainian ("Khokhol") peasants than Tomsk or Tobolsk provinces.