outpost

a remote outpost of civilization;

the community is the last outpost of civilization in the far north.

Some soldiers waited at an outpost deep in the forest.

The commandos attacked the outpost at dawn.

That little store was the last outpost for motorists before they entered the desert.

Eastern European as Soviet Russia"s vested interest symbol, at the same time, it was the outpost which Soviet Russia contended with America, so Soviet Russia always controlled them restrictedly.