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The East Siberian economic region accounted for 4 per cent of the national GRP in 2008. This sparsely populated region between Europe and Asia has high wage levels and also a relatively large portion of employees in the new private sector. Productivity is also high by Russian standards.
East Siberian Lowland, a vast alluvial plain, swampy and dotted with thousands of lakes. The region includes the Yana-Indigirka, Kolyma and Aby lowlands, as well as the New Siberian Islands. Area about 1,100,000 km 2 (420,000 sq mi). [4] East Siberian Mountains, a large mountainous area located in
The origin of the name is uncertain. [10] The Russian name Yugra was applied to the northern lands east of the Urals, which had been known of since the 11th century or earlier, while the name Siberia is first mentioned in Russian chronicles at the start of the 15th century in connection with the death of the khan Tokhtamysh, in "the Siberian land".
No federal subject can belong to more than one economic region. ... uphold the federal laws on the territory of the country. ... East Siberian: 6,096,127: 3,371,800:
The number of horses in the East Siberian region in 1933 decreased by 49% compared to 1929, cattle - by 56%, sheep and goats - by 71%, pigs - by 61%. In 1934, the restoration of agriculture began. At the beginning of 1935, there were 55 Machine and tractor stations , 27 state farmss operating in the region.
The region directly east of the West Siberian Plain is the Central Siberian Plateau, which extends eastward from the Yenisei River valley to the Lena River valley. The region is divided into several plateaus , with elevations ranging between 320 and 740 metres (1,050 and 2,430 ft); the highest elevation is about 1,800 metres (5,900 ft), in the ...
Although it reaches a width of roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 mi), the highland region is almost cut in half by the East Siberian Lowland that stretches to the north in the central area. To the southwest the boundary is not clearly delimited, as it overlaps with the system of the South Siberian Mountains. Owing to the mountainous terrain, large ...
The Russian government divides the region into three federal districts (groupings of Russian federal subjects), of which only the central one is officially referred to as "Siberian"; the other two are the Ural and Far Eastern federal districts, named for the Ural and Russian Far East regions that correspond respectively to the western and ...