Discover Siberia

Photo courtesy of Alexandr Kuzovkov Think you know all about Siberia? The following facts might surprise you… Siberia makes up 75% of the Russian Federations territory, approximately 9,653 square kilometers  or 3,727 square miles. That’s almost the same size as Canada and 1.5 times bigger than Europe! There are three distinct regions in Siberia: Western [...]

Lake Baikal – the most outstanding lake on earth is known as the Blue Eye of Siberia, and also carried the name Siberian Perl among Russians. The lake is located in the southern region of Eastern Siberia. Lake Baikal is 636 km (395 ml) long with a maximum width of 81 km (50ml) at its [...]

Almost perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth Lyuba will make its U.S. debut next spring at the Field Museum as part of a “Mammoths and Mastodons” exhibit. Exhibit scheduled to run from March to September. Lyuba will be encased in glass that will afford viewers a 360-degree look. About Lyuba Lyuba is a female woolly mammoth which died 40,000 [...]

In 1977, the well-preserved carcass of a 7- to 8-month old baby woolly mammoth, named “Dima”, was discovered. This carcass was recovered from permafrost on a tributary of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. This baby woolly mammoth weighed approximately 100 kg (220 lb) at death and was 104 cm (41 in) high and 115 [...]

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. [...]