Novosibirsk is the third in Russia
There are many settlements - cities, towns and villages in the Russian Trans-Urals, and the most Big city is the capital of Siberia. Novosibirsk ranks third in Russia in terms of population after Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to 2009 data, 1.397 million people are registered in Novosibirsk. April 30, 1893 is considered to be the birthday of the city, but, despite its youth, it is impossible to talk about Novosibirsk without using the word “most”. Firstly, the city is located on the banks of the longest river in Russia - the Ob. The length of the Ob with its main tributary, the Irtysh, is 5,410 km.
Secondly, the city has the largest opera and ballet theater in Russia, in terms of area, which is the hallmark of Novosibirsk. The theater building is an example of modernist architecture of the late 1920s. During the construction of the theater, many unique constructive solutions, for example, the structure of the theater dome. The dome was designed by B.F. Mater and P.L. Pasternak, the diameter of the dome is 60 meters with a thickness of only 8 centimeters - this is the largest dome of this design in the world.
Theatre, Trans-Siberian Railway
In May 1931, the laying of the building was carried out. And already on August 1, 1941, the official opening of the theater was planned. But the war made its own adjustments, and the opening of the theater took place on May 12, 1945. During the war, the evacuated exhibits from the museums of Moscow and Leningrad were kept in the building of the future theater.
The beginning of the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891) gave impetus to the development of the city's industry. Before the October Revolution of 1917, Novosibirsk (until 1925 - Novonikolaevsk) was a commercial and industrial center Western Siberia. The leading industry in those years was the flour milling industry.
Novosibirsk factories
The largest plant "Trud", founded in 1904, produced spare parts for the mechanisms of mills, oil refineries and agricultural machinery. Before the war of 1941-1945, many industrial enterprises were built in Novosibirsk, among them a tin plant, Sibkombain, and a plant for boring machines. In 1936, an aircraft manufacturing plant was opened, which in 1939 was named after Valery Pavlovich Chkalov.
The second powerful impetus to the development of industry was given by the Great Patriotic War. Many enterprises from Leningrad and other cities of the USSR were evacuated to the largest city in Siberia, due to this, production for the front increased by 8 times: only Yak fighters for the front were produced up to 33 aircraft per day.
Modern Novosibirsk
In modern Novosibirsk, there are 214 enterprises that produce 2/3 of the volume of all products of the Novosibirsk region. The leading industries of the city include mechanical engineering, metallurgy, energy, chemical, light and food industry. In 1985, the first metro stations were opened in Novosibirsk. This is the very first metro beyond the Urals with the world's longest covered metro bridge.
The city grew and developed rapidly, in just a few decades a small town with a population of 100 thousand people became a millionaire city. Only Chicago can boast of such growth rates. Novosibirsk (Novonikolaevsk) was the center of the Russian Empire. In this place, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, a chapel was built in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, designed by the famous architect A.D. Kryachkov.
The chapel is a symbol of Novosibirsk
The project of the chapel was made in the style of Novgorod-Pskov architecture of the XII-XIV centuries. In 1933, by order of the city council, "taking into account the wishes of the working masses and taking into account the improvement of the city," the chapel was destroyed. By the 100th anniversary of the city, in 1993, the Nikolskaya chapel was re-erected. The project of the new chapel was carried out by the architect P.A. Chernobrovtsev.
Novosibirsk has also gained worldwide fame thanks to its unique zoo, which occupies one of the leading places in the world in terms of conservation. rare species animals.
The largest city in Siberia continues to grow and develop actively. Much attention is paid not only to the construction of new modern buildings, but also to the preservation of historical architectural heritage.
Siberia is a region located in the northeastern part of Eurasia. According to 2002 data, more than 13 million people live on its territory. Below is information about the most notable Siberian cities. Briefly told about the administrative center of the East Siberian region - the city of Irkutsk. And also about Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Tomsk, Norilsk.
Irkutsk
This city is the sixth largest among other Siberian cities. more than 600 thousand people live. The city was founded in 1661 as a prison. Half a century later, it was badly damaged by a fire, which was repeated in 1879, after which it took more than ten years to restore. Until 1917, Irkutsk was a merchant city that flourished on Russian-Chinese trade.
Novosibirsk
In terms of population, this Siberian city ranks third in Russia. Thirteenth in area. When did this Siberian city appear? The foundation of the Nikolsky churchyard, later called Krivoshchekovo, can be considered the beginning of the history of Novosibirsk.
At the end of the 19th century, no more than 700 people lived here. Krivoshchekovtsy began to leave these places after it became known about the construction of the Great Siberian Route. This area had a bad reputation. The thing is that a village was located nearby, in which the natives lived, causing the residents of nearby settlements fear and dislike. Nevertheless, in May 1893, workers arrived here to build a new settlement. This year is officially considered the year of foundation of Novosibirsk.
The largest Siberian city in fifty years has increased its population from 75 thousand people to 1.1 million. Now there are about 1.6 million people living there, and this figure continues to grow. It's all about the good location of the railway line, once laid through the small Novo-Nikolaevsk - the future Novosibirsk.
Tyumen
This is the oldest Siberian city. For the first time the name "Tyumen" is mentioned in the annals of 1406. The construction of the Tyumen prison, which can be considered the basis of the future city, was started in 1586, not far from Chingi-Tura, by decree of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich. Tyumen is the best Siberian city in terms of living standards.
Omsk
This Siberian city has many attractions. For example, streets, more precisely, their names. It is probably not easy for a visitor to navigate here. The number of streets with the name "Severnaya" here reaches 37. According to this indicator, Omsk ranks first in Russia. In addition, the Siberian city is the leader in the number of streets of Workers, of which there are 34. Maryanovsky - 23. Amur streets in Omsk 21. Eastern - 11.
The city has streets 1st Razezd and 3rd Razezd. Where is the second one? Unknown. And there is the First Passage from the Third at a distance of several kilometers. And finally, RV-39 is a street reaching a length of 120 meters, but having only one building.
Tomsk
It is the largest scientific and educational center among Siberian cities. There are nine universities, fifteen research institutes. In addition, there are many monuments of stone and wooden architecture, the first of which were created in the 15th century. More than 550 thousand people live in this Siberian city. It was founded in 1604.
It is worth saying a few words about Norilsk. It is the northernmost city in the world. It has about 177 thousand inhabitants. Norilsk has the unsightly title of the dirtiest Siberian city. About two tons of harmful substances enter the air here every year. All because of the Norilsk Nickel enterprise, in which almost half of the periodic table is mined. Harmful substances in the Norilsk air are contained in an amount exceeding allowable norms hundreds of times.
Book Atlas des Enfans: Liempire Rousse, Imprimé à luniversité Imperiale de Moscow, 1771.
Here I don't even know what to say. I have not found any other information about this city. I wonder where the authors got this fact from? On the other hand, the book was printed in the printing house of Moscow University. Dedicated to some kind of Kriegs commissar Glebov. Probably passed the censorship. So they didn't just write.
It turns out that the same book was published under a different title: Experience of Russian geography. Imperial Moscow University, 1771. And there it is dedicated to all the governors of the then Russia, according to the list. And each sent a copy to correct errors and inaccuracies
Opening cities is my specialty, heh!
That's not all. The city of Tyumen used to be called differently. Again, this is not written anywhere else.
Book: Abulgachi-Bayadur-Khan Genealogical story about the Tatars, translated into French from a handwritten Tatar book, the work of Abulgachi-Bayadur Khan, and supplemented by a great number of reliable and curious notes about the direct current state of North Asia with the required geographical land maps, and from French into Russian at the Academy of Sciences. Published at the end of the 18th century. And part of the map from there. And the city of Siberia is very clearly visible on it.
The first Siberian king had, according to the chroniclers of the 17th century, a very interesting name - Ivan. Though there was Magmet's law. That's very interesting, what exactly is the law and not faith. This is not the first time I have come across this definition - the law. It is different from the concept of faith. And this is a completely different view of the events of that time.
Someone Genghis killed Ivan. Also Tatar. Miller, in his Description of the Siberian kingdom and all the cases that took place in it,: St. Petersburg: At Imp. Acad. Sciences, 1750. - Tatars are the first and most important people of Siberia.
In addition to them, on the Irtysh River, as follows from the text, the Chud people live.
The city of Siberia was founded by King Mamet somewhere at the end of the 15th century, judging by the text. And the kingdom of Siberia for many years was part of the kingdom of Kazan.
By the way, a very interesting point. Ivan the Terrible became the first tsar in Russia, and before that we had only princes. But the Siberian, Astrakhan, Kazan and Crimean rulers were originally called kings. Why so, it is not clear. There was something, which we now don’t even know about, that put these lands and their rulers higher than the Russian principalities in the then table of ranks. Yes that Kazan and Siberia. There was the Kasimov kingdom, right next to Moscow. And there was a king and not a prince.
At the end of the text interesting fact- the names of the sons of Kuchum do not coincide with the names recorded in our current history. I already wrote about the Siberian princes.
And now, if you re-read the entire text and estimate how much time has passed from Genghis to Kuchum, it turns out that it is not much. Years 100-150.
And finally. The then historian does not make any connection between Genghis and the Tatars, with whom Russia was constantly at war. And this is actually correct. I'll write about it anyway.
“Siberia… Far and close at the same time. If you get by train - far away, on foot - and even further. Closer by plane. And very close - with the soul, ”wrote the Russian publicist Yegor Isaev. With Mazda6 we were lucky enough to look into the very heart of Siberia, its former capital - the glorious city of Tobolsk.
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Not of this world
Still, it is no coincidence that the ancestors believed that the lot of Russia was "not of this world." Whatever one may say, our primary task was not to arrange our life in the way that our neighbors in the West did, because Holy Russia looked forward to only one thing - a return to the Kingdom of Heaven. All ancient Russian culture is the way to Heaven. Great-grandfathers knew: a person will not build paradise on earth, even if you crack. Here are the cities, our cities are solid metaphysics. Perhaps, perhaps the most “non-worldly” of all Russian cities is Tobolsk. Nowhere did legends and prophecies come true as they did in the history of the Tobolsk land. No other provincial city has linked so many glorious and famous people, as connected the old capital of Siberia - the city of Tobolsk. Yes, under what circumstances! But more on that later.
Winter Tobolsk greeted us sternly: in a frosty spirit, in snow-white clothes, with an angry face. And he did not flirt with the cheerful Siberian sun at all.
Winter Tobolsk greeted us sternly: in a frosty spirit, in snow-white clothes, with a gray angry face. And contrary to expectations, he did not flirt with the vigorous Siberian sun at all. Resembling a grey-haired grumpy old man who smells of a stove and shag, Tobolsk seemed to frown at us, checking for lice: what are you, whose will you be, what did you complain about? Then the “old man” will blush and spread in a good-natured smile, then the sun will peek out, and the sedate views of the Irtysh will open, and wide tables will appear, richly laid according to Siberian law. In the meantime, our Mazda6 quietly crept along the snow-covered streets of the ancient city, and we carefully looked at the local decoration, breathing in with all our hearts amazing story these places.
"Born unknown soul famous"
The very fact of the emergence of this city and its background give rise to a lot of mysteries that begin with the personality of the one who is considered to be the "conqueror of Siberia" - Ermak Timofeevich Alenin. Scientists have not yet come to a unanimous opinion what kind of character in Russian history this is, which only had seven names. Few people know that Yermak was also called Yermolai, Herman, Yermil, Vasily, Timothy and Yeremey. Who is this husband by origin, various chronicles tell in different ways. “Unknown by birth, famous in spirit,” says one of them. For the majority, he comes from the estates of the Stroganov industrialists on the Chusovaya River, who later went to “field” on the Volga and Don and became a Cossack chieftain. According to another version, he is a purebred Don Cossack from the Kachalinskaya village, according to the third version, he comes from the Pomors of the Boretsky volost, according to the fourth, he is a representative of a noble Turkic family.
In one of the chronicles
a description of the appearance of Yermak Timofeevich is given: “the great man is courageous, and humane, and transparent, and is pleased with all wisdom, flat-faced, black-bearded, middle age (that is, growth), and flat, and broad-shouldered.”
August 15, 1787
in a family of nobles in Tobolsk in the family of the vice-governor Alexander Vasilyevich Alyabyev, the great Russian composer Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabyev was born.
Another question: why did he go to Siberia anyway? For modern historians, three different versions have the right to life, each of which at the same time has its own weaknesses. Did Ivan the Terrible bless the Cossacks on the campaign to join new lands to their possessions, did the Stroganov industrialists equip Yermak to protect their towns from the raids of the Siberian Tatars, did the ataman arbitrarily go on a raid "for zipuns", that is, for the purpose of personal gain - historians argue still. Whatever the case, according to archival documents The ambassadorial order, Khan Kuchum, the owner of the Siberian Khanate, had an army of about ten thousand. How Yermak could conquer Siberia with a detachment, according to various sources, from 540 to 1636 people, remains a mystery. Although the Remezov Chronicle mentions the figure "5000", but here we are talking about the size of the stocks taken by the squad ("for the opening of 5000 people") and only indicates that these stocks were very large.
angel palm
Let's return to the city from which Russian Siberia began. Its future capital arose in 1587, in a picturesque place on the banks of the Irtysh, seventeen kilometers from the former capital of the Khanate, where the significant battle of Yermak took place on the Chuvash Cape. According to legend, Tobolsk is blessed with the Holy Trinity, which is why it was founded on this Holiday. The first urban building was the Trinity Church, and the cape was named Trinity. Subsequently, this part of the city, located on the mountain, became known as the Upper Posad, and the one below - the Lower. The lower city has not changed much since pre-revolutionary times. The only touch is that the domes of churches and bell towers have thinned out, and the buildings have not changed much. To be convinced of this, it is enough to look at the old photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky.
Although by default Tobolsk was considered the capital of Siberia late XVI century, this title was officially secured by the Petrine reform of 1708, when Tobolsk became the administrative center of the largest Siberian province in Russia, which included the territory from Vyatka to Russian America. Up until the 18th century geographical maps Tobolsk is sometimes referred to as the "city of Siberia".
“The Siberian city of Tobolsk is like an angel! His right hand is a ward discharge. On the hand of having a lower tenure, left hand- the cathedral church and the wall of the stone pillar, the right side is the ravine to the Irtysh, the left side is the ridge and the Kurdyumka River, the right wing is the Tobol to the steppe, the left is the Irtysh. This angel is the joy of all Siberia and a fair decoration, and peace and silence with foreigners. These words belong to the boyar son, a native of Tobolsk, writer, historian, architect, builder, cartographer, icon painter Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov. It was he who designed and built the first stone Kremlin on Siberian soil. According to one version, when dying, Remezov bequeathed to grind his bones into powder, which was to be used as building material during the restoration of the Tobolsk Kremlin. Such is the "love for the native ashes."
The "Silver Age" of Tobolsk began in the first half of the 17th century - in 1621 the city became the center of the emerging Siberian diocese. The construction of a vast bishop's court and a wooden St. Sophia Cathedral began. With the growing importance of Tobolsk as the most important administrative, spiritual and cultural center of Siberia, the role of the Tobolsk Kremlin grew as a symbol of the greatness of the Russian state, covering more and more new lands. Maybe I experienced the notorious tourist complex, but, it should be noted, being on Cape Troitsky in the historical part of the Upper City, looking at the endless Siberian landscapes, you experience unforgettable sensations: the memory of the former heyday of this city and the legendary ancestors, the whole history of the fatherland, and indeed Time itself seemed to be frozen in these harsh places.
One of the legends speaks about the special grace given to the city by God. In the autumn of 1620, on the way to Tobolsk, the first diocese in Siberia, an angel of God appeared in a dream to the newly appointed Archbishop of Tobolsk, St. Cyprian. He covered the lower city with his luminous palm and commanded to build churches in the Lower Posad so that they would repeat it. The angel promised that in this case the grace of God would descend on the city and special people would be born here - “God-kissed”. And so it happened. One after another, they were built in Tobolsk according to the trace of the palm of the angel of the church: “And they flashed like sparks of God on the fingertips of the sacred palm.
The Russian exile began from Tobolsk. The first Tobolsk exile is the Uglich bell.
They did not have time to build a church only on the symbolic fifth finger. But the higher will turned out to be stronger, and another branch of Christianity completed and fulfilled the prophetic dream of Cyprian. It was not otherwise than according to the Highest Providence that it was built on the fifth finger catholic church, who completed the drawing "The Palms of an Angel" in Nizhny Tobolsk.
Indeed, Tobolsk gave the world a large number of famous people for such a relatively small town. Here are just a few of them: artist Vasily Perov, composer Alexander Alyabyev, philosopher Gavriil Batenkov, scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, the elder Grigory Rasputin, the founder of the Geneva School of Linguistics, linguist Sergei Kartsevsky, the inventor of television, the scientist Boris Grabovsky, the chief architect of the Ostankino Tower and the Luzhniki Stadium, Nikolai Nikitin, the actress Lidia Smirnova, the actor Alexander Abdulov.
The birthplace of Alexander Abdulov is Tobolsk, not Fergana, as many publications claim about the life of the actor. Alexander's father, Gavriil Danilovich, served as director and chief director at the Tobolsk Drama Theater.
The wooden house where the Abdulov family lived is still preserved in the foothills of the city. Gavriil Abdulov worked in Tobolsk from 1952 to 1956. And here in 1955 he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Tobolsk native
the great encyclopedic scientist Dmitry Mendeleev is known as a chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, teacher, aeronaut, instrument maker.
During your exile
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky met in Tobolsk with the wives of the Decembrists, one of whom presented the writer with the old Gospel, which he kept all his life. In the final scene of Crime and Punishment (a conversation between the exiled Raskolnikov and Marmeladova), the surroundings of Tobolsk are recognizable.
Born in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk district, in the family of a coachman Efim Vilkin and Anna Parshukova. In the 1900s, among certain circles of St. Petersburg society, he had a reputation as an "old man", a seer and a healer.
Historically, in Russian Empire it was Tobolsk that became the first "exiled" city. And the first to go into exile was ... the Uglich bell, which sounded the alarm during the city uprising after the murder of Tsarevich Dmitry, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and the only legitimate heir to Tsar Fedor Ioannovich. Following the bell, Archpriest Avvakum, the Decembrists (along with their wives), Dostoevsky, Korolenko, the last Emperor Nicholas II, and tens of thousands of other exiles and convicts of the Russian Empire visited here.
Tobolsk suffered the fate of many pioneer Siberian cities. The gradual decline of the city is mainly associated with the transfer of the Siberian tract, when the nature of the development of Siberia changed and there was a shift in the population and economic life south, in the forest-steppe. The Trans-Siberian Railway passed through neighboring Tyumen, and from the second half of XIX century Tobolsk began to lose its former influence ...
Now a little more than a hundred thousand inhabitants live in Tobolsk. The city revives and even promises to grow again. In addition to the fact that the city-forming petrochemical plant "Tobolsk-Neftekhim" operates here, not far from the city, large enterprise for the production of polypropylene "Tobolsk-Polymer". The old capital of Siberia is in danger of becoming not only a tourist Mecca, but also a major industrial center. The history of Siberia continues, miracles are yet to come...
Lanterns in Tobolsk are a separate issue. Walking through the streets of the city, sometimes it seems that there are as many of them as there are stars in the sky. The thing is that in the city there is an enterprise for the manufacture of lanterns "Yugor", known far beyond the borders of Tobolsk and the Tyumen region. Yugorsky light is familiar to many cities of Russia. Siberian lanterns illuminate not only Tobolsk, but also the Moscow Kremlin and Sochi beaches...
Our shot has ripened everywhere
In 1582 Yermak won main battle on the Chuvash cape on the Irtysh, defeated Kuchum and occupied the capital of the Khanate - the city of Siber. From here arose the familiar name of our great expanses between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean. True, after two years of possession, the Cossacks again lost their conquests back to Kuchum, but a year later they returned forever. And fifty years after the death of Yermak, the centurion Peter Beketov founded the Yakut prison on the banks of the Lena - the future city of Yakutsk. Four years later, another ataman, Ivan Moskvitin, was the first European to reach the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk. Cossack Semyon Shelkovnikov founded a winter hut here, which later grew into the first Russian port - the city of Okhotsk. Through severe frosts, thousands of kilometers of impenetrable taiga and swamps - in just half a century. Colonization North America Europeans walked for four hundred years - from the 16th to the 19th century. And even the Russians helped them in this. Alaska, Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands were explored and mapped in the middle of the 18th century thanks to the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov. Know ours!
Last link
August 6, 1917 at 6 o'clock in the afternoon Tobolsk met bell ringing the ship on which they arrived last in exile Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family. The exiled royal persons were settled in the governor's house, located not far from the pier. The family occupied the second floor of the building; on the first floor, a dining room and rooms for servants were arranged. In April 1918, the Romanovs, by order of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, were transported to Yekaterinburg, and Tobolsk went down in history as "the city that did not kill the tsar." Currently, the city administration is in this house, which promises to release the historical monument soon to organize a museum of the royal family here.
Siberian "Mazdovod"
Mazda6 has become the main guide to the Siberian land, which would like to make a special bow to the earth as a token of gratitude for the impeccable work in the severe Siberian winter. In addition, the “six” periodically hypnotized local residents, deservedly attracting the enthusiastic glances of local “mazdovodov”, of which there were quite a lot in the Siberian expanses. One young man from Tobolsk on the previous Mazda model could not stand it and, having caught up with us at the traffic lights, he literally showered us with persistent questions about the new car. Eyes burned, curiosity ate, and the conversation dragged on, I had to turn on the emergency gang. Of course, we could not give up the coveted steering wheel to him, so it was not easy to part with him ...
Siberia is one of the most mysterious and harsh regions Russian Federation. Here is the famous Lake Baikal, the total area of \u200b\u200bwhich is equal to the area of the Netherlands. On its territory is located Vasyugan swamp - the largest in the world. The area of Siberia is about 9.8 million square meters. km, which is more than half of the entire territory of Russia. It is located in the northeastern part of Eurasia. What regions is its vast territory divided into?
Regions of Siberia: list
Siberia includes the following territories. First, these are the republics: Altai, Buryatia, Tyva, Khakassia. Secondly, Transbaikal, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, Khabarovsk. And also the official division of Siberia includes the regions: Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk and Tyumen.
Territory of Western Siberia
No less vast territory is occupied by the regions of Western Siberia. The list will include the following territories: Altai Territory, Tyumen, Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, part of Khakassia, and Kurgan region. One of the most ancient territories, which was inhabited by people about 1.5 million years ago, is Altai. Its length from west to east is about 600 km. The largest rivers not only in Russia, but throughout the world flow here. These are the Ob, Biya, Katun, Charysh. For example, the area of the Ob basin is about 70% of the entire Altai Territory.
Regions of Siberia: Eastern part
To the territory Eastern Siberia belong to the lands of Buryatia, Zabaikalsky, Irkutsk region, as well as Tyva, Khakassia, Yakutia. The development of this area dates back to the 18th century. Then, by decree of Emperor Peter I, a prison was built on the territory of modern Khakassia. This time, namely 1707, is considered the date of the annexation of the Republic of Khakassia to the territory of Russia. The locals that the Russians discovered in Siberia were shamans. They believed that the Universe is inhabited by special spirits - masters.
The Republic of Buryatia with its capital in the city of Ulan-Ude is considered one of the most picturesque regions of Siberia. Here are huge mountain ranges Mountains occupy an area four times the area of the plains. A significant part of the Buryat border runs along the waters of Lake Baikal.
The Republic of Sakha is ahead of all regions of Siberia and the Far East in its size. Moreover, Yakutia is also the largest region of Russia. More than 40 percent of its territory is located beyond the Arctic Circle. About 80% of the territory of Yakutia is occupied by taiga.
Omsk and Tomsk regions
The main city of the Omsk region is Omsk. Geographically, this area is a flat area with a continental climate. Here are taiga forests, forest-steppes and steppes. The forest occupies about 24% of the entire territory of the region. The territory with the center in the city of Tomsk is one of the most inaccessible. After all, most of it is represented by taiga forests. There are a large number of deposits of valuable natural resources: oil, gas, metals and peat.
Tyumen and Novosibirsk regions
The Tyumen region is located on a flat territory. In terms of its area among the administrative subjects of Russia, it is located in third place, in the Arctic, tundra and forest-tundra regions. Here lie the main reserves of oil and gas in Russia. The Novosibirsk region is famous for its rivers. About 350 rivers are located on its territory, and the main water artery, the Ob, also flows. There are also more than 3 thousand lakes here. areas - continental. For the first time it was inhabited by representatives of the Mongoloid tribes in the 7th-6th centuries. BC e.
Transbaikalia
The regions of Siberia amaze with their beauty and therefore are always attractive for tourists. One of these territories is the Trans-Baikal Territory. It is located on the eastern and southeastern territory of Lake Baikal. Its center is the city of Chita. There are very long and severe winters here, and the warm season, on the contrary, is fleeting.
Far East and Western Siberia
On the Far East most of the Russian rivers are located, the mouths of which flow into Pacific Ocean. Only about 5% of the population of Russia lives here. Sometimes the region of Transbaikalia is also referred to this territory. Since the regions of Siberia are known for their vastness, disputes often arise over the division of its lands.
Western Siberia is located on a vast West Siberian Plain. Its area is about 2.6 million square meters. km. It also contains a large number of natural resources- mineral. There are about 2 thousand river arteries here.