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'''Siberia''' is the region of [[Russia]] to the east of the [[Ural Mountains]], reaching for thousands of miles to the [[Pacific Ocean]].
'''Siberia''' is the region of [[Russia]] east of the [[Ural Mountains]], south of the Arctic Ocena, and stretching for thousands of miles east to the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Major towns of Siberia include Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novysibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.
Historically Siberia was inhabited by nomadic tribes. Russia colonisation was gradually accomplished by the creation of [[penal colony|penal colonies]], the establishment of military garrisons, and the arrival of [[Cossacks]]. Even after the construction of the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]], the population of the region remains low.
== History ==
Historically Siberia was inhabited by nomadic tribes. Russia colonisation was gradually accomplished by the creation of [[penal colony|penal colonies]], the establishment of military garrisons, and the arrival of [[Cossacks]]. Even since the construction of the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]], the population of the region remains low.
== Economy ==
Siberia is enormously rich in natural resources; [[oil]], [[diamond]]s, [[gold]] and many other metals.
Siberia is enormously rich in natural resources; [[oil]], [[diamond]]s, [[gold]] and many other metals.
Siberia contains several of the worlds longest rivers.
== Landscape ==
From north to south, Siberia changes from [[tundra]] and [[permafrost]], to extensive swamps and immense, predominantly [[conifer]]ous forests. Siberia contains several of the worlds longest rivers - the Lena, the Ob', the Yenisey. There are [[glacier]]s and active [[volcano]]s on the [[Kamchatka]] peninsula. [[Lake Baikal]] is the worlds deepest lake.
== Nature ==
Siberian wildlife includes [[tiger]]s, [[reindeer]], black, brown and polar [[bear]]s, [[sable]]s, [[sea otter]]s and [[lemming]]s. The frozen corpses of [[mammoth]]s and woolly [[rhinoceros]]es have been found frozen in the Siberian Arctic. Huge numbers of [[fur seal]]s and [[walrus]]es live on the North Siberian Islands and in the [[Bering Sea]] and the [[extinction|extinct]] sirenian [[Steller's Sea Cow]] was found only here.
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