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Agriculture in Siberia was started many millennia ago by peoples indigenous to the region. While these native Siberians had little more than "digging sticks" called mattocks instead of ploughs at their disposal, Siberian agriculture would develop through the centuries until millions of Russian farmers were settled there, reaping significant bounties off this huge expanse of land stretching ...
On 20 July 1946, the International Emergency Food Council (IEFC) was founded under the aegis of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and took over the role of international food relief. The Soviet Union declined participation in this organization, as it would have required disclosure of several critical economic statistics, and as a ...
The conquest of Siberia by the Russian Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, followed by smallpox and other epidemics, and then eventually the Soviet collectivization of the 20th century, led to great changes in the lives and diets of the Chukchi people.
Indigenous people in the Arctic statistically fall below their nation's poverty line. Indigenous populations that were once largely self-sufficient and relatively food secure in the Arctic's harsh environment are today struggling to sustain themselves as a result of poverty and also the impacts of climate change [citation needed].
The mass methanol poisoning in Irkutsk, a city of about 600,000 people near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, [15] was caused by an adulterated batch of alcoholic hawthorn-scented bath oil. [2] It was named boyaryshnik or Боярышник, the Russian word for hawthorn, [2] [16] and was also described as a lotion.
A man who’s dog was stolen by a tiger went to find out what happened to his pet – only to meet the same fate
Siberian Finns (Finnish: Siperiansuomalaiset, Siberian Finnish: korlakat) are Finnish people living in Siberia, mainly descendants of Ingrian Finns, who were deported into Siberia. According to some estimates up to 30,000 Ingrian Finns were deported to Siberia, a third of whom died either on their way to the various labor camps or soon after ...
Arctic weather enfolded swathes of Russia on Tuesday, with temperatures in the wilds of Siberia falling to minus 58 degrees Celsius (minus 72 degrees Fahrenheit). Yakutsk, one of the world's ...