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Coat of arms of Siberia, which was a part of the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms until 1917 Map of the Siberian Route in the 18th century (green) and the early 19th century (red) By the mid-17th century, Russia had established areas of control that extended to the Pacific Ocean. Some 230,000 Russians had settled in Siberia by 1709. [41]
The depression is in the form of a one-kilometre-long gash up to 100 metres (328 feet) deep, and growing, in the East Siberian taiga, located 10 km (6.2 mi) southeast of Batagay and 5 km (3.1 mi) northeast of the settlement Ese-Khayya, about 660 km (410 mi) north-northeast of the capital Yakutsk.
Map showing the location of the Yamal Peninsula Satellite view of Yamal Peninsula 70°40′15″N 70°08′12″E / 70.67088°N 70.13672°E / 70.67088; 70 The Yamal Peninsula ( Russian : полуостров Ямал , romanized : poluostrov Yamal ) is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northwest Siberia , Russia .
The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly North Korea.It once ranged throughout the Korean Peninsula, but currently inhabits mainly the Sikhote-Alin mountain region in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East.
[1] [2] The Gornaya Shoria megaliths, also known as the Surak-Kuilum megalithic complex and by other names, form the ridgecrests and summit of Mount Kuylyum (Kuilum, Kulyum)(Russian: Горна Куйлюм), 1,203 m (3,947 ft) in elevation. The base of this mountain is located 8 km away from the village of Orton (Russian: Ортон). Mount ...
The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountains are located in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts of Russia, as well as partly in Mongolia. [1] The territory of the mountain system is one of the Great Russian Regions.
It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. At 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi)—slightly larger than Belgium —Lake Baikal is the world's seventh-largest lake by surface area, [ 5 ] as well as the second largest lake in Eurasia after the ...
Yakutsk (/ j ə ˈ k uː t s k / yə-KOOTSK) [a] is the capital and largest city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle.Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one of Russia's most rapidly growing regional cities, with a population of 355,443 at the 2021 census.