Grey Ukraine

Grey Ukraine, also called Grey Klyn, is an unofficial name for a region in Southern Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan where Ukrainians settled in large numbers from the middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The Ukrainian form is Siryi Klyn, and the Russian form is Seryy Klin. Around 1917 to 1920 a movement for Ukrainian autonomy arose in the region. It has no official boundaries or administrative status, so its extent is described by where the settlement took place rather than by a fixed border, and it sits across the Russian and Kazakh parts of northern Asia.