- Siberia
- Aleksandr Kolchak (1874-1920), Russian naval commander, head of anti-Bolshevik White forces
- past events; former happenings
- fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
- years; time
- face to face
- to erect; to set upright; to stand
- hostile; malevolence; antagonism; to view as enemy; to stand against
- symbol; emblem; to symbolize; to signify; to represent
- 刨 bào: 刨 bao4: carpenter's plane; to plane (woodwork); to shave off; to peel (with a potato peeler etc)刨 páo: 刨 pao2: to dig; to excavate; (coll.) to exclude; not to count; to deduct; to subtract
- police; police officer
- summit; peak
- paint; lacquer; CL:道[dao4]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)
- to adopt an attitude; to strike a posture
- to peck
- round; circular
- to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
- hammer; CL:把[ba3]
- sickle
- Black Sea
- extreme north
- Arctic ocean
- (esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- bird of prey
- to be situated; to be located (of a building)
- remote; far from civilization
- 武 Wǔ: 武 Wu3: surname Wu武 wǔ: 武 wu3: martial; military
- border guard; frontier army
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- boundary marker; boundary post; boundary pillar
- snowfield
- to extend; to stretch out
- hill