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In Siberia

In Siberia is a travel book by the English writer Colin Thubron.



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Airbus A310

9 July 2006: S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310-324 from Moscow carrying 196 passengers and eight crew, overshot the runway at Irkutsk in Siberia, plowed through a concrete barrier and caught fire as it crashed into buildings.

Asan people

The Asan or Assan were a Yeniseian speaking people in Siberia.

Bullet to Beijing

Conveniently, though they are in Siberia, there is an airport nearby, and they are able to board a crowded, ramshackle Aeroflot Antonov An-30 aircraft.

Carl Ben Eielson

Eielson died alongside his mechanic Earl Borland in an air crash on November 9, 1929, in Siberia while attempting to evacuate furs and personnel from the Nanuk, a cargo vessel trapped in the ice at North Cape (Mys Schmidt on today's maps).

Central Siberian Yupik language

Naukan, or Nuvuqaghmiistun, the second largest Yupik language spoken in Siberia, is spoken in settlements Uelen, Lorino, Lavrentiya, Provideniya.

Czechoslovak Legion

Mohr, Joan McGuire, The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia from 1917 to 1922.

Daursky Nature Reserve

Daursky Nature Reserve is a nature reserve situated in the southern part of the Chita region (Zabaykalsky Krai) in Siberia, Russia, close to the border with Mongolia.

Dora Curtis

Dora Curtis was an artist, member of the expedition together with Maud Doria Haviland (1889–1941), Miss Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886–1921), Polish anthropologist, and Mr. Henry Usher Hall, of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876–1944), on a trip down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914.

Eduard Kunz

Eduard was born in Siberia, studied with Michail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Special school for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Eldar Djangirov

He later took classical lessons and was "discovered" at age 9 by the late New York City jazz aficionado Charles McWhorter, who saw him play at a festival in Siberia.

Enets people

Colin Thubron, In Siberia, HarperCollins, 1999, hardcover, 287 pages, ISBN 0-06-019543-6; British editions, Chatto & Williams or Sinclair Stevenson, October, 1999, hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 1-85619-798-0; trade paperback, Penguin, September, 2000, 384 pages, ISBN 0-14-026860-X

Galina Gorchakova

She moved to Novosibirsk in Siberia with her parents who were singers at the opera house there.

Géza Gyóni

They endured together the lengthy nine-month journey between POW receiving areas, travelling between Kiev, Moscow, Alatyr, Petropavlovsk, Omsk and finally to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.

Grigori Voitinsky

In 1920, the Soviet Union established the Far Eastern Bureau in Siberia, a branch of the Third Communist International, or the Comintern.

Hordes of the Jochid Ulus

Mustafa reconquered the Horde, though, in Siberia appeared another threat of Abu'l-Khayr Khan.

Jan Sobczyński

In 1941, like many Poles in Siberia, he survived when Joseph Stalin’s policies changed following the German invasion.

Johann Julius Walbaum

He was the first to describe many previously unknown species from remote parts of the globe, such as the Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), the Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the Kamchatka River in Siberia, and the curimatá-pacú (Prochilodus marggravii) from the São Francisco River in Brazil.

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Khioniya Guseva

Grigori Rasputin, a friend of the tsar Nicholas II of Russia and the Tsarina, was visiting his wife and children in his village, along the Tura River, in Siberia.

L. sibirica

Ligularia sibirica, a perennial herbaceous plant species native to fens and damp grassy meadows in Siberia, Central and Eastern Europe

Margarita Starkevičiūtė

Born in Siberia, Russia where her parents, both teachers, were residing in exile together with hundreds of other Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.

Mordehai Dubin

He lived under arrest and exile in Siberia, first in Samara, and later in Tula, where he died in 1956 in a labor camp and is buried.

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Leaf Warbler is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who discovered it on the Ingoda River in Siberia in 1811; the species name proregulus derives from its similar size to the Goldcrest Regulus regulus.

Pan-Slavic language

In Siberia in 1666, the Croat Juraj Križanić wrote Grammatično Iskazanije ob russkom jeziku (Грамматично исказание об русском езику - Grammatical book of the Russian Language).

Paul Wittgenstein

During his recovery in a prisoner-of-war camp in Omsk in Siberia, he resolved to continue his career using only his left hand.

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

Svinhufvud refused to obey the orders of the Russian procurator Konstantin Kazansky, which he considered illegal, and this led to his removal from office as a judge and being exiled to Tomsk in Siberia in November 1914.

Pinus sibirica

Pinus sibirica, or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lower Yenisei valley, south to 45°N in central Mongolia.

Samoyed

the Samoyedic peoples in Siberia who speak the Samoyedic languages: the Enets, the Nenets, the Nganasans, and the Selkups

Selkup

Selkup people: A people living between the Ob and Yenisei rivers in Siberia, Russia

Septuaginta zagulajevi

Septuaginta is a genus of moth in the Pterophoridae family containing only one species, Septuaginta zagulajevi, which is found in Russia (the Chita region in Siberia).

Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin

Between 1904 and 1906 he took part in an expedition to the Kolyma River in Siberia, and in 1909 he visited the Altay Mountains, and he made his final expedition in 1925 on the Chukchi Peninsula.

Shigeki Mori

During his term, he developed a relationship with the Siberian town of Shelekhov, particularly a bilateral dialogue to improve the gravesites of Soviet soldiers in Japan and Japanese soldiers in Siberia; he was so close to Russia that Japanese authorities monitored him closely as a potential communist sympathizer.

Ştefan Balmez

After the Soviet occupation, Balamez was arrested on June 28, 1940 and then disappeared in Siberia.

Svante Pääbo

In March 2010, Pääbo and his coworkers published a report about the DNA analysis of a finger bone found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia; the results suggest that the bone belonged to an extinct member of the genus Homo that had not yet been recognized, the Denisova hominin.

Tetracosane

n-Tetracosane is found in mineral called evenkite in the Evenki Region on Lower Tunguska River in Siberia and the Bucnik quarry near Konma in eastern Moravia, in former Czechoslovakia.

TNK-BP

In 2012 Russia's Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev announced that regulators plan to seek damages from TNK-BP as one of the biggest polluters of the Ob and Yenisei river basins in Siberia.

United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union

In 1952 a modified B-47B bomber made the first deep-penetration U.S. overflight of Soviet territory to photograph Soviet bombers in Siberia.

Vadim Kozin

In 1993, being interviewed by Theo Uittenbogaard in the TV documentary GOLD lost in Siberia, he remembered that he was released from exile temporarily and flown in to Yalta for a few hours, because Winston Churchill, being unaware of Kozin's forced exile, had asked Stalin for the famous singer Vadim Kozin to perform, during a break in the Yalta Conference, held February 4– February 11, 1945.

Vatnajökull

The glacier was used as the setting for the opening sequence (set in Siberia) of the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, in which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) eliminated a host of armed villains before escaping in a submarine to Alaska.

Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov

During the Second World War Yuri Lavrov and his family was evacuated with the theatre to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia.

Zygmunt Mineyko

In Paris, he met Napoleon III to inform him about the French officers, participants of the January Uprising, whom he had met in Siberia.