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Novosibirsk [a] is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, [21] making it the most populous city in Siberia and the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
1581–1585 - Siberian campaign of Ermak Timofeevich 1586 - Vasily Sukin founded Tyumen (the first Russian city in Siberia), on the site on the former capital of the Siberian Khanate 1587 - Tobolsk was founded on the Irtysh , which later became the "Capital of Siberia"
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".
Yekaterinburg [a] is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, [14] up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.
The Church of the Cross (1747–60) is a pinnacle of the Siberian Baroque architecture. Irkutsk [61] is a point of interest for tourists with its numerous museums and old architecture. The Taltsy Museum (Russian: Тальцы), located on the Angara 47 kilometers (29 mi) south of Irkutsk, is an open-air museum of Siberian traditional architecture.
After the Trans-Siberian was built, Omsk soon became the largest Siberian city, but in 1930s Soviets favoured Novosibirsk. In the 1930s the first heavy industrialization took place in the Kuznetsk Basin (coal mining and ferrous metallurgy) and at Norilsk (nickel and rare-earth metals). The Northern Sea Route saw industrial application.
Siberia Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. [1]As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Siberia Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.
Jan Czerski exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, and was thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society. The Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky