Tyumen – The First Russian Town in Siberia

Tyumen is a Siberian city located on the Tura River which crosses the city from the north-west to the south-east. It is the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast.
The Tyumen area was annexed to Russia by a Cossack Yermak Timofeyevich in 1585. It originally belonged to Siberia Khanate – Tatar Turkic political [...]

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Khanty-Mansiysk – The Mountain Skiing Centre

Khanty-Mansiysk is the city located in the central part of Western Siberia on the bank of the Irtysh River. It is a small town with an area of 534,8 thousand sq. km surrounded by coniferous wood. The population is just above 1500 people.
The history of the city began in 1930 as a working settlement. Afterward [...]

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Novosibirsk – The Third Capital of Russia

Founded in 1893 Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia.
Novosibirsk means “New Siberian city”
Novosibirsk obliges its birth to the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroad. The railway demanded in 1893 a bridge across the Ob river and the town was established next to the bridge. Novonikolaevsk was the [...]

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Tomsk – Siberian Athens

Siberian Athens
Tomsk is a city on the Tom River in the southwest of Siberia which borders on Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Kemerovo regions and Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In 1604, Tomsk was established under the order of Tsar Boris Godunov. 200 Cossacks were sent to construct a fortress on the bank of the Tom River. Thus began the [...]

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Frozen Remains

The stuffed Adams mammoth, in The Museum of Zoology, St. Petersburg, Russia

While frozen mammoth carcasses had been excavated by Westerners as early as 1728 (by German scientist Daniel Messerschmidt), the first mammoth fossil fully documented by modern science was unearthed by a hunter in Siberia during 1799, on the banks of the Lena River. The [...]

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Tyumen – The First Russian Town in Siberia

Posted by admin March 21, 2010, under Cities, Featured | No Comments
Tyumen – The First Russian Town in Siberia

Tyumen is a Siberian city located on the Tura River which crosses the city from the north-west to the south-east. It is the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast.
The Tyumen area was annexed to Russia by a Cossack Yermak Timofeyevich in 1585. It originally belonged to Siberia Khanate – Tatar Turkic political [...]

Bronze Age Complex in Altai

Posted by admin November 14, 2009, under Events | 1 Comment
Bronze Age Complex in Altai

The end of the archeological season was crowned with a unique find: archeologists discovered a unique monument of the Bronze Age between the settlements of Bely Bom and Chibit at the junction of Ongudai and Ulagan Regions of Altai Republic.
The find is a complex made up of a huge cup-shaped rock, stone settings and holes [...]

Khanty-Mansiysk – The Mountain Skiing Centre

Posted by admin November 4, 2009, under Cities, Featured | No Comments
Khanty-Mansiysk – The Mountain Skiing Centre

Khanty-Mansiysk is the city located in the central part of Western Siberia on the bank of the Irtysh River. It is a small town with an area of 534,8 thousand sq. km surrounded by coniferous wood. The population is just above 1500 people.
The history of the city began in 1930 as a working settlement. Afterward [...]

The Siberian Beauty – Yevgenia Lapova

Posted by admin October 25, 2009, under Events | 1 Comment
The Siberian Beauty – Yevgenia Lapova

“If the best is attainable, then good is not enough”
Evgenia Lapova

On Saturday, October 24 the title of “Beauty of Russia” (“Krasa Rossii”) was won by the 23-year-old elite model from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Evgenia Lapova has been recognized as a queen of beauty among 68 beautiful Russian girls from almost all regions of [...]

Novosibirsk – The Third Capital of Russia

Posted by admin October 18, 2009, under Cities, Featured | 1 Comment
Novosibirsk – The Third Capital of Russia

Founded in 1893 Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia.
Novosibirsk means “New Siberian city”
Novosibirsk obliges its birth to the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroad. The railway demanded in 1893 a bridge across the Ob river and the town was established next to the bridge. Novonikolaevsk was the [...]

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