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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
In the heart of Russia's Siberian region lies a city that endures perpetual permafrost, yet experiences temperatures hotter than many US cities during the summer months. Yakutsk, located in Siberia, ...
Livingston Daily25d
Siberia, Iceland and other places where it's warmer today than in Livingston County
There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, where the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay. The city's Wikipedia page likens it to ...
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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 ...
Asia News10d
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 ...