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The first jointly curated Soviet-North American exhibit every organized, “Crossroads of Continents,” opens Sept. 23 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington. The exhibit, 10 years in the planning, presents for the first time a unified and panoramic view of the history, art and cultures of natives on both sides of the Bering Strait--Siberia and Russia-America, the historic name for the region from Alaska to California settled by Russians until the mid-19th Century. The exhibition includes 550 artifacts, most never before on exhibition, which demonstrate the arts, culture and history of the region from 20,000 years ago to the present.