The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was founded in 1991 to promote private and entrepreneurial initiatives in the countries of central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
... Siberia, Russia. The European names derived from misinterpretation of a Manchu name "sahaliyan ula angga hada" (peak of the mouth of Amur River). Sahaliyan means black in ...