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Article: Russia's frigid heart: a near-permanently frozen region of rivers, mountains, tundra and forest enclosed by the Ural Mountains in the west and the Pacific and Arctic oceans in the east, Siberia is a place of extremes. This selection of photographs from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society taken around the turn of the 20th century, capture scenes from across the mighty region at a time when it was little known outside of Russia.(GEOGRAPHICAL archive)(Photograph)
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- Geographical
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- June 1, 2009
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TOP: winter in western Siberia, 1912. The low-lying West Siberian Plain extends in an easterly direction from the Ural Mountains and consists mainly of flat marshland containing rich alluvial deposits from the many tributaries of the Ob and Yenisey rivers. The southern part of western Siberia is characterised by a more undulating landscape and is home to 80 per cent of the region's population, drawn there by the fertile soils, in which they grow wheat, barley, rye and potatoes; ABOVE: British nurse Kate Marsden (probably the figure wrapped up in ...