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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...
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Inside the world's coldest city where temperatures drop to -83F
It is one of the coldest places in the world with a record low temperature of -83F recorded on February 5, 1891 - but in the summer it can get hotter than many US cities ...
World’s coldest city sees temperatures drop to -64C and 'ice fog' darkens skyline
Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia is one of the coldest places in the world, with a record low temperature of -64C recorded on 5 February 5 1891. During January, the average low temperature is -42C with the ...
Moment Putin 'death plane' delivers 50 coffins of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
Eerie footage shows dozens of wooden coffins being unloaded in the world's coldest city, Yakeutsk, in Siberia, in the same plane that is used to carry new soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin ...
Siberia, Iceland and other places where it's warmer today than in Holland
Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of ...
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Siberian Jews open region’s largest Jewish education center in Tomsk
This week, local Jews feel a circle has been completed, as the city opened a Jewish education center, the largest currently in Siberia — the area of Russia that is east of the Ural Mountains and ...
Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city, seeking gateway for future advances
Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main ...
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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
Irkutsk was the ‘dove city of the Siberian revolution’ in 1918 ... Irkutsk is therefore also called ‘Russia in miniature’, always ahead of the rest of the country, towards a future ...