Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is Russia's third largest city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast. It is located in the southwest of Siberian Federal District. It was founded in 1893 as the future site of the Trans-Siberian railway bridge crossing the great Siberian river Ob. Its importance further increased early in the 20th century with the completion of the T ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Omsk

Omsk is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. The population in Omsk rose from 31,000 in 1881 and 53,050 in 1900 to 1,134,016 according to the 2002 population census. It is the second-largest city in the Siberian Federal District. The distance from Omsk to Moscow is 2,700 km. Omsk was the seat of the Governor General of Western Siberia, and later of th ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, and the third largest city in Siberia, having a population of 909,341 in the 2002 census. It lies on the Yenisei River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway. Krasnoyarsk is one of the earliest settlements of Siberia. It was founded as a fort in 1628 by Cossack Andrey Dubenskiy. It was a wooden fortress wit ...

Date added: 29 April '06

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, one of the most important places in Siberia, being not only the principal commercial depot north of Tashkent, but also a fortified military post, an archbishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church and the seat of several learned societies. Irkutsk population: 593,604 (2002 Census); 500,000 (1975); 49,106 (1900); 32,512 (1875). History: Irk ...

Date added: 08 July '06

The Arctic Region

The Arctic Region is an ocean, mostly covered with a permanent stratum of ice. The ocean is limited by islands and North America, Europe and Siberia. Geographical Characteristics The Iced Ocean has a 14 million km²­ surface and its depth is 3.000 m. in the summers you can navigate around Canada's north coast. Many big rivers, Mackenzie in North America and Ob Lena and Enisa in Eurasia, flows ...

Date added: 14 December '06