Horse drawn sledge, Koptelovo village, Siberia, Russia
Siberia (Sibir in Russian) vast region of Russia composed of almost all of Northern Asia. Extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and southwards from Arctic ocean to north-central Kazakhstan and borders of Mongolia and China. Siberia makes up 56 per cent of Russia’s territory. Siberia was occupied by nomads such as the Tenets, the Nenets, the Uyghurs and the Huns. The Khan of Sibir was known as a prominent figure. Siberia remained a mostly unexplored and uninhabited area. During the following few centuries, only a few exploratory missions and traders inhabited Siberia. Prisoners exiled from western Russia or Russian-held territories like Poland were sent to gulag camps in Siberia by Joseph Stalin. It is described as the world's largest frozen peat bog and according to scientists is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts. They say the sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany combined could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and turn into a watery landscape of lakes.
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