siberia

     

Coorinates: 60°0′N, 105°0′E

Trivia about siberia

  • For his subversive activities, Lenin was banished to this region in 1897
  • This region's West Plain, one of the world's largest flatlands, is over 1 million square miles of steppe & tundra
  • Russia's Lena River lies within this large, cold eastern region of the country
  • The name of this vast region of northern Russia means "sleeping land"
  • The punishment at the end of the novel "Crime And Punishment" is servitude in this cold region
  • Novosibirsk & Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region
  • Though frozen up to 6 months of each year, the Ob River is an important trade route in this cold, vast region
  • Lenin met his wife Nadezhda while exiled here
  • Temperatures can reach minus 90 degrees in this large eastern area of Russia that makes up 75% of the country
  • The failed liberal Decembrist revolution of 1825 got hundreds of its leaders banished to this vast region
  • This cold region of Russia makes up about 75% of the country's land area
  • This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile
  • In 1913 Stalin got a free 4-year trip to this region, courtesy of the Russian government
  • Novosibirsk, one of the main cities of this Russian region, only dates from 1893: its name means "new" this Russian region
  • Small numbers of reindeer imported to Alaska from this Russian region eventually increased to more than 500,000
  • In the 1730s Bering explored the Kuril Islands & the Arctic coast of this vast, freezing Russian region
  • Move to this "Sleeping Land" of Russia to become an Evenki shaman & fast after you've received your first vision
  • 18th c. groups led by shamans fought over the Yenisey River in this 5 million-sq.-mi. area of North-Central Russia
  • With temperatures as low as -94 F., Oymyakon in this large region is the world's coldest inhabited place

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