Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

SIBERIA

Siberia: translation

Occupying a vast swath of northernEurasia, Siberia (Sibir’) constitutes more than half of the territory of the Russian Federation. Siberia stretches from theUral Mountainsin the west to the watershed Arctic and Pacific drainage basins in northeastern Eurasia. The northern border of the region is theArctic Ocean, while its southern border is geopolitically fixed byMongoliaandKazakhstan. Historically, Siberia once comprised lands of theRussian Far East; however, the two regions are now distinct. Siberia includes all members of the SiberianFederal District(Altay Krai,Altay Republic,Buryatiya,Zabaykalsky Krai,Irkutsk,Khakasiya,Kemerovo,Novosibirsk,Omsk,Tomsk, andTuva), as well as portions of the Urals Federal District (Khantiya-Mansiya,Kurgan,Tyumen, andYamaliya);Sakhais sometimes included as well, though theethnic republichas been included in the Russian Far East since the 1960s.Historically, Siberia has been home to many of the great nomadic civilizations including the Huns, Scythians, and Mongols.RomanovRussia began the incorporation of the region in the 16th century asCossacksmoved eastward from Europe.Ethnic Russianshave been settling in Siberia for centuries and now represent about 85 percent of the population; however, sizable indigenous minorities remain, including SiberianTatars,Tuvans,Khakas,Altays, andBuryats, as well as smaller native groups known collectively as theindigenous peoples of the north. There are also an estimated 1 million ethnicChinese immigrantsin the region and neighboring Russian Far East.
In the late tsarist era, theTrans-Siberian Railwayopened up the zones of the region to further European settlement and tied Siberia more closely to the imperial core; the region’s population centers remain near the railway. During the Soviet period, Siberia became a human dumping ground for thepunished peoplesand the site of many of the regime’sgulags.
The region’sclimateranges fromtundrain the north to temperate broadleaf forests in the south, with a wide band oftaigain between. The absence of east-west mountain ranges translates into severe exposure to Arctic weather patterns, and thus brutally cold winters. Siberia is rich in mineral resources as well asoilandnatural gas. In the south,agricultureis also a key source of employment and revenue. Heavyindustryhas mostly collapsed since thedissolution of the Soviet Unionin 1991. Novosibirsk (pop. 1,500,000) is the largest city in the region. Due to its insalubrious climate and distance from major population centers, Siberia is currently facing severely negativedemographic challenges, which the federal and local governments are working to counteract.

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