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Siberia was deemed a good place to exile for political reasons, as it was far from any foreign country. A St. Petersburg citizen would not wish to escape in the vast Siberian countryside as the peasants and criminals did. Even the larger cities such as Irkutsk, Omsk, and Krasnoyarsk, lacked that intensive social life and luxurious high life of ...
The origin of the name is uncertain. [10] The Russian name Yugra was applied to the northern lands east of the Urals, which had been known of since the 11th century or earlier, while the name Siberia is first mentioned in Russian chronicles at the start of the 15th century in connection with the death of the khan Tokhtamysh, in "the Siberian land".
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.
Siberia, also known as Siberian Craton, Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, [1] is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau , it formed an independent landmass prior to its fusion into Pangea during the Late Carboniferous - Permian .
Paleo-Indians originated from Central Asia, crossing the Beringia land bridge between eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska. [121] Humans lived throughout the Americas by the end of the last glacial period, or more specifically what is known as the late glacial maximum.
A grassy field fills a swath of land between two dense tree lines along the banks of a river in Siberia. Although from above the site appears to be nothing more than a field, it was once a ...
In Siberia, the Siberian Khanate was established in the 1490s by fleeing Tatar aristocrats of the disintegrating Golden Horde who established Islam as the official religion in western Siberia over the partly Islamized native Siberian Tatars and indigenous Uralic peoples. It was the northernmost Islamic state in recorded history and it survived ...
A giant hole in the earth is breaking open the land in Siberia, and photos from space show it's growing rapidly. It resembles a stingray, a horseshoe crab, or a giant tadpole.