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35 unusual facts about Siberia


1910–19 Pacific hurricane seasons

Racing northeast, the cyclone moved over the Polar ice cap on October 11, arcing north of Europe, before dropping into northern Asia on October 13, then crossing through Siberia until October 21, when the low dissipated.

Bharatpur district

Keoladeo National Park attracts 364 species of birds, including many from India, but also from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Siberia, China and Tibet, including the rare Siberian Crane.

Camponotus japonicus

Camponotus japonicus inhabit a wide range, including Japan, Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, China, Mongolia and Siberia.

Choerades fimbriata

The species is distributed from western Europe to the Caucasus and after Siberia.

Cnephia

Cnephia is a genus of 9 species of black flies, They are distributed in scattered locations across the Northern Hemisphere, from Ukraine to Eastern Siberia, and some parts of North America.

Crataegus sanguinea

Crataegus sanguinea (common names Redhaw Hawthorn or Siberian hawthorn) is a species of hawthorn that is native to southern Siberia, Mongolia, and the extreme north of China.

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.

Emma Harbor

a bay in Chukotka, Russia, now Komsomolskaya Bay, a branch of Provideniya Bay, see Providence Bay, Siberia,

Galina Gorchakova

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

Gippsland Lakes

The wetlands provide habitat for about 20,000 waterbirds – including birds from as far afield as Siberia and Alaska.

Ira Block

He has photographed diverse locations in Africa, the Australian outback, the Gobi Desert, Siberia, and the North Pole where he spent three months with the late, world famous Japanese explorer, Naomi Uemura.

Kalinov Most

The band was formed in 1984 by vocalist and song-writer Dmitry Revyakin in Novosibirsk, Siberia, USSR.

Katey Walter

Walter's research focuses on methane and carbon dioxide emissions from arctic and temperate lakes and wetlands in Alaska and Siberia, and the processes involved in greenhouse gas emissions from lakes, including thermokarst (permafrost thaw), industrial plant emissions, geology, and changes in lake area.

Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

Margarita Starkevičiūtė

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

Marius Stravinsky

Opera debut was in Carmen at the Helikon Opera in Moscow, and he became its resident conductor from 2004-2007, conducting such works as Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Shostakovich), Dialogue des Carmelites (Poulenc), The Tale of a Real Man (Prokofiev), Kaschei the Immortal (Rimsky-Korsakov), Siberia (Giordano) and Mavra (Stravinsky).

Myrmica lobicornis

It is also found in the forest zone of East Europe, the Caucasus, West Siberia, North-East Kazakhstan, East Siberia, and Mongolia stretching until Transbaikalia in the East.

Na-Dene languages

In February 2008 a proposal connecting Na-Dene (excluding Haida) to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia into a Dené–Yeniseian family was published and well received by a number of linguists.

Nicolas Vanier

Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of reindeer (caribou), which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves.

Niseko, Hokkaido

Because of its northern location, Niseko is fed more by weather fronts that come from Siberia than from Eastern Japan, although all of Japan, especially the west coast of the main island (see Yukiguni), experiences northwest-to-southeast Siberian winds in the winter.

Rainier Club

E. H. Harriman, John Burroughs, John Muir, Edward S. Curtis and Henry Gannett set out to Seal Island and other Bering Sea islands and to the coast of Siberia and the Bering Strait from the Club, and celebrated there on their return.

Rulikówka

The town was evacuated by force; its former inhabitants brought by train to Archangelsk, Siberia.

Ruvim Frayerman

Frayerman joined the Red partizan unit fighting Japanese troops nearby Nikolayevsk, then as a komissar travelled through Siberia, helping to maintain the Bolshevik rule in regions inhabited by Tungus, Nivkh and Nanay people.

Sahebganj district

Migratory birds reach here every winter from several parts of the World, including Siberia.

Salix myrsinifolia

Salix myrsinifolia (syn. S. nigricans Smith) is a species of willow native to Europe and Western Siberia.

Salix udensis

Salix udensis (syn. S. sachalinensis F.Schmidt) is a species of willow native to northeastern Asia, in eastern Siberia (including Kamchatka), northeastern China, and northern Japan.

Siberia

Towns such as Mangazeya, Tara, Yeniseysk and Tobolsk were developed, the last being declared the capital of Siberia.

Ştefan Balmez

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

The Kolyma Tales

He was arrested again in 1937 and sentenced to five years in Kolyma, north-eastern Siberia.

Thomas Hart-Davies

Hart-Davies was a very experienced traveller: visiting Siberia, Persia and much of South America.

Valentina Kameníková

During World War II, due to her origin, she was relegated to Siberia, studying and playing the piano, first in Odessa at a local music school, then at the Odessa Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory.

Xanthogramma citrofasciatum

Xanthogramma citrofasciatum is a species of hoverfly found in grasslands from Ireland to western Siberia.

Yulia Chicherina

The group played at several festivals in western Siberia, and after the cassette with Chicherina's recordings was sent to Mikhail Kozyrev (the producer of Nashe Radio), they were invited to the Nashestvie festival.


Afanasevo culture

The culture became known from excavations in the Minusinsk area of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, southern Siberia, but the culture was also widespread in western Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, and eastern and central Kazakhstan, with connections or extensions in Tajikistan and the Aral area.

Andrey Kirikov

True to its name, the company focused on production and marketing of Portland cement in the vast Russian region of Siberia.

Aviaarktika

Aviarktika established routes along the rivers and lakes of Siberia and Northern Russia; the Ob River with a base at Omsk, on the Irtysh and Yenisei rivers, with a base at Krasnoyarsk, on the Angara near Lake Baikal at Irkutsk, and at Yakutsk on the Lena.

Bombus soroeensis

In the west its distribution reaches the British mainland (including Skye and some minor Scottish islands, but excluding Ireland and the major Scottish islands), while in the east it extends to Lake Baykal in central Siberia, Mongolia, and, in the south-east, Anatolia and the northern Iranian mountains.

Clovis culture

According to the standard accepted theory, the Clovis people crossed the Beringia land bridge over the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska during the period of lowered sea levels during the ice age, then made their way southward through an ice-free corridor east of the Rocky Mountains in present-day western Canada as the glaciers retreated.

Coal-water slurry fuel

CWS produced by milling the sludge and/or regular coal near the coal mine near Belovo (Siberia, Russia) was transported through the pipeline to Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), a distance of 262 km.

Czechoslovak Legion

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

Emperor Guangwu of Han

Some Russian archaeologists have identified a Han-era Chinese-style palace unearthed near Abakan (in Southern Siberia) in 1941–45 as Lu Fang's residence after he had left China for the lands of the Xiongnu.

Esther Hautzig

Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile.

Formica aquilonia

Formica aquilonia is a species of wood ant of the genus Formica which are widely distributed in Europe and Asia, occurring from Scandinavia in the north to Bulgaria and Italy in the south, and from the UK eastwards through France and Germany to Russia, while they are also found in the coastal areas of the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Siberia.

H. petiolaris

Hydrangea petiolaris, a species native to the woodlands of Japan, Korea and Sakhalin in easternmost Siberia

Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling

Tiling became a physician at the "Russian North American Co." in Ayan, Siberia from 1845 through 1851.

Hordes of the Jochid Ulus

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

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.

Kuchum

--1586?-->, the tsar decreed that the dynasties of the ruler of Imeretia in the Caucasus along with the Tatar princes of Siberia and Kasimov were to be into the Genealogical Book of the Russian nobility.

L. sibirica

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

Lake Kucherla

Lake Kucherla (Кучерлинское) is located in the Altai Mountains and Katun Nature Reserve of Siberia.

Neoshamanism

Piers Vitebsky, The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul - Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon, Duncan Baird, 2001.

Nikolai Baturin

After attending a high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the Atlantic Ocean; for fifteen years he was a hunter in the Siberian taiga.

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.

Rock Palace

Artists: Frosted Glass (SPb), Xe-None (Siberia), Cattle Extermination (SPb), Devilish Distance (death metal, Samara), Moray Eel (Moscow), Perimeter (SPb), Stardown (SPb), Vergeltung (Moscow), Master (Moscow), O.X. (Pushkin), Dismember (Sweden), Fall of the Leave (Finland), Grave (Sweden), Trol Gnet Ell (SPb), Swallow the Sun (Finland) .

Rolf Singer

During his time at the Academy, Singer made many expeditions to Siberia, the Altai Mountains, and Karelia.

Russian Caravan

The southern route by Odessa is far cheaper, but the tea is supposed to suffer in flavour in its transit through the tropical seas, while it improves in its passage through the cold dry climate of Mongolia and Siberia, by losing that unpleasant taste of firing whereby tea was dried using direct heat.

Ruvim Frayerman

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, whom Frayerman met in Novosibirsk, invited him to the newly formed Sibirskiye Ogni (Lights of Siberia) magazine, where his first short novel Ognyovka was published in 1924, followed by Na Mysu (At the Cape, 1925), Sobolya (Sables, 1926) and a large poem Na Rassvete (At the Dawn, 1926).

S. sinensis

Spiranthes sinensis, the Chinese spiranthes, an orchid species occurring in much of eastern Asia, west to the Himalayas, south and east to New Zealand and north to Siberia

Salix lapponum

Salix lapponum, the downy willow, is a low, much branched shrub (to 1.5 metres) having a wide distribution in Northern Europe, eastwards to the Altai and western Siberia, and is found as far south as the Pyrenees and Bulgaria.

Sammlung für Völkerkunde

The collection consists of approximately 17,000 items and focuses on the South Pacific with the Cook-Forster collection, containing items from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand, and on Siberia and the polar regions with the Baron von Asch collection.

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).

Sibiryakov Island

Sibiryakov financed explorations to Siberia, such as Nordenskiöld's, and also took part in some expeditions of his own.

Simon and Monika Newbound

Their route went eastward from Sligo, Ireland to St. John's, Newfoundland, via Norway, Moscow, Siberia, Tokyo and Toronto, Canada.

Svyataya Anna

Leybourne-Popham appointed Joseph Wiggins as captain of Blencathra for an 1893 voyage to the Kara Sea and into the Yenisei River, thus taking the ship to the furthest reaches of Siberia.

Topografov virus

It is the first hantavirus to be isolated from Siberian lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus) found near the Topografov River in the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia.

Uppalapadu

Painted Storks, Spot-billed Pelicans and other birds migrate from various countries such as Siberia, Australia and use the center for nesting.

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.

Willow Warbler

The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia.

Yermak Timofeyevich

In 1996, directors Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valeri Uskov produced the film Yermak, a historical drama about the conquest of Siberia which starred Viktor Stepanov, Irina Alfyorova, and Nikita Dzhigurda.

Yupik languages

#Naukan Yupik (also Naukanski): spoken by perhaps 100 people in and around Lavrentiya, Lorino, and Uelen on the Chukotka Peninsula of Eastern Siberia.

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.