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Traditional Siberian medicine revolves around many different methods of treatment for different conditions and ailments. Early forms of Siberian medicine included herbal and topical treatments that would be ingested in the forms of tea or pastes applied directly to the skin. [1] Indigenous Siberian civilizations utilized the plants available in ...
Natura Siberica is a Russian organic cosmetics company, selling worldwide, headquartered in Moscow. The company aims to provide natural products made from wild Siberian plants and herbs. [2] As of 2017 Natura Siberica operates 70 own brand stores, and sells its products in more than 40 countries. [3]
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
The early history of Siberia was greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) on the west of the Ural Mountains and Xiongnu (Noin-Ula) on the east of the Urals, both flourishing before the common era. The steppes of Siberia were occupied by a succession of nomadic peoples, including the Khitan people ...
A large minority of people in North Asia, particularly in Siberia, follow the religio-cultural practices of shamanism. Some researchers regard Siberia as the heartland of shamanism. [1][2] The people of Siberia comprise a variety of ethnic groups, many of whom continue to observe shamanistic practices in modern times.
Ideologies of Siberian regionalism (Siberian nationalism) considered the Siberians to be a separate people from the Russians. [5] [6] Among contemporary ethnologists there are both opponents [6] and supporters of this point of view. [2] [4] In 1918, under the control of the Siberian regionalists, there was a short-term state formation "Siberian ...
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The southern Siberian rainforest is primarily located within the Altai and Sayan mountain ranges across a range of elevations. Geographic features that the forest extends onto include high mountains and ridges as well as valleys carved by glaciers [2] and river basins. The forest-steppe ecotone occurs at elevations as low as 250 to 300 metres ...