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 [...]
Where is Siberia?
We may often hear the name “Siberia” but what is the location, history and origin of this place? For many Siberia is no more than a metaphor which is giving rise to a stereotype, a certain image of eternal fierce winter which reigns in a huge territory occupied by wild animals, such as bears. [...]
