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    Western Siberia or West Siberia (Russian: Западная Сибирь, IPA: [ˈzapədnəjə sʲɪˈbʲirʲ]; Kazakh: Batys Sıbır, IPA: [bɑˈtə̥s sɘˈbɘr]) is a region in North...
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    Siberia (/saɪˈbɪəriə/ sy-BEER-ee-ə; Russian: Сибирь, romanized: Sibir', IPA: [sʲɪˈbʲirʲ] ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North...
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    The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1581–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being...
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    The early history of Siberia was greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) on the west of the Ural Mountains...
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    territorial expansion of his empire into South Central and southern Western Siberia. This early period of expansion gained the Mongol Empire access to...
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    юрт, romanized: Sibirskoye tsarstvo, Sibirsky yurt) was a state in western Siberia. It was founded at the end of the 15th century, following the break-up...
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    of the Siberian Krai in 1930. By the 1937 All-Union Census, it had population of 6,433,527. Siberia portal USSR Population Distribution (1937) v t e...
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    comparative flatness of Western Siberia was served by good river systems, the major river systems Ob–Irtysh–Tobol–Chulym of Eastern Siberia had difficulties...
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    Institute with a Master of Science in Engineering. Alekperov moved to Western Siberia in 1979 and worked at Surgutneftegaz between 1979 and 1985, earning...
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  • Geographically, Siberia includes the Russian Urals, Siberian, and Far Eastern Federal Districts. Siberia has population density of only three persons per...
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    Plateau, and the Vilyuy Plateau); and the Central Yakutian Lowland. Western Siberia is usually regarded as the Northwest Asia, Kazakhstan also sometimes...
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    (Nazarov, 1886) - found in the Urals and western Siberia T. u. taczanowskii (Stejneger, 1885) - central Siberia to Altai Mountains (northwest Mongolia and...
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    romanized: Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina) is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River...
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    The pipeline was constructed in 1982-1984. It complemented the Western Siberia-Western Europe transcontinental gas transportation system which had existed...
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  • Power of Siberia 2 (also known as Altai gas pipeline) is a proposed natural gas pipeline to export natural gas from Russia's Western Siberia Altai region...
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    3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in Western Siberia, east of the southern Ural Mountains. Of the three languages, Khanty...
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    system forms a major drainage basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altai Mountains. From its origins as the Kara-Irtysh (Black...
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    gas route from Siberia to China. The proposed western gas route to China is known as Power of Siberia 2 (Altai gas pipeline). In 2007, the Ministry of...
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    of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Its use was known among almost all of the Uralic-speaking peoples of western Siberia and the Paleosiberian-speaking...
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    Prehistory of Siberia is marked by several archaeologically distinct cultures. In the Chalcolithic, the cultures of western and southern Siberia were pastoralists...
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    it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siberia and the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
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    glaucescens Bunge - Turkey, Caucasus, Ukraine, European Russia, western Siberia (Altai and Western Siberia), Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Inner Mongolia Leonurus...
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  • culture that existed between 7th century BC and 5th century AD in Western Siberia. Sargatka cultural horizon encompassed northern forest steppe zone...
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    Governor-General of Western Siberia until the seat moved to Omsk in the 1820s or 1830s. Acknowledging the authority of Tobolsk, many Western Siberian towns...
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  • aircraft and helicopters in support of the oil and gas industry across western Siberia. In February 1967, the Aeroflot Tyumen Directorate was set up to meet...
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    the Old World flycatcher family. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except...
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    wintering greater spotted eagle in southwest Saudi Arabia (from a Western Siberia breeding area) was found to utilize an average home range in winter...
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    the largest are located in central and eastern Siberia. The most developed fields lie in western Siberia, in the northeastern European region, in the area...
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    Western Siberia came under the Golden Horde. The descendants of Orda Khan, the eldest son of Jochi, directly ruled the area. In the swamps of western...
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    appeared in the Middle Pleistocene, ranging from southwestern Russia to western Siberia and southward into Ukraine and Moldova. Elasmotherium is typically...
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