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The Soviet Union and then Russia have continued these studies with the other regional powers weighing the costs and benefits of turning Siberia's rivers back to the south and using the redirected water in Russia and Central Asian countries plus neighbouring regions of China for agriculture, household and industrial use, and perhaps also for ...
The Omolon (Russian: Омолон; Yakut: Омолоон, Omoloon) is the principal tributary of the Kolyma in northeast Siberia. The length of the river is 1,114 kilometres (692 mi). The area of its basin is 113,000 square kilometres (44,000 sq mi). [1] The Omolon freezes up in October and stays under ice until late May through early June. The ...
Since Siberia is relatively flat, portages were usually short. Despite resistance from the Siberian tribes, Russian Cossacks were able to expand from the Urals to the Pacific in only 57 years (1582-1639). These river routes were crucial in the first years of the Siberian fur trade as the furs were easier to transport over water than land. The ...
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals ...
The Chara Sands, a small desert zone in Siberia, near the Chara River. The Kodar Mountains are in the background. The Chara (Russian: Ча́ра; Yakut: Чаара, Çaara) is a left tributary of the Olyokma in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is 851 kilometres (529 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 87,600 square kilometres (33,800 sq mi). [1]
The ecoregion is centered on the West Siberian Plain, a flat lowland that only ranges from 100 meters to 300 meters above sea level. The western edge of the region is the Urals mountains, and the western half of the region is dominated by the Ob River and its main tributary the Irtysh River.
Temperatures in the world's coldest village have reached near-record lows -- so low, in fact, that a digital thermometer broke as a result. Oymyakon is a remote village in Siberia, and it is ...
The surface water temperature decreases from south to north. In winter it varies between −0.2 and 0.6 °C at the river deltas and from −1.7 to −1.8 °C in the northern sea part. In summer, it warms to 7–8 °C in the bays and inlets and to 2–3 °C in the ice-free sea zones. [4] Surface water salinity increases from southwest to northeast.