Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Siberian Uprising or Baikal Insurrection (Polish: Powstanie zabajkalskie or Powstanie nad Bajka em, Russian: ) was a short-lived uprising of about 700 Polish political prisoners and exiles (Sybiracy) in Siberia, Russian Empire, that started on 24 June 1866 and lasted for a few days, till their defeat on 28 June.After the failure of the January Uprising in Poland in 1863-1865, the Russian empire exiled many of the Poles involved to Siberia.