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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Riches of the Far East
The Far East is the largest part of the Siberian region. People can confuse the Russian “Far East” with the bigger area that includes several Asian countries. In regard to Siberian geography, the Far East is only the portions of the Russian territory.
The Far East is divided into two sub districts based on their economic [...]
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
The Trans-Siberian Railway or “Transsib” is famous not only in Russia, but all over the world. The Trans-Siberian railway is the longest railroad in the world and was built in a record-breaking short period of time. It also has amazing innovative engineering solutions.
Today the Trans-Siberian Railway is a well equipped railway line that stretches through [...]
Surprising Facts about 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 Siberia, Eastern Siberia [...]
Woolly Mammoth in Siberia
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia.
This mammoth species was first recorded in (possibly 150,000 years old) deposits of the second last glaciationin [...]
Siberian Tiger
The Siberian Tiger is endangered and almost extinct. There are only (estimated) three hundred sixty to four hundred six in the wild; four hundred ninety are held in zoo conservation programs. Siberian Tigers live in eastern Russia and some are found in north eastern China and north Korea. Even though there have been many wars, [...]
