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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...
World’s coldest city sees temperatures drop to -64C and 'ice fog' darkens skyline
Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia is one of the coldest places in the world, with a record low temperature of -64C recorded on 5 ...
Moment Putin 'death plane' delivers 50 coffins of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
Eerie footage shows dozens of wooden coffins being unloaded in the world's coldest city, Yakeutsk, in Siberia, in the same plane that is used to carry new soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin ...
Siberia, Iceland and other places where it's warmer today than in Holland
Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of ...
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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
Irkutsk was the ‘dove city of the Siberian revolution’ in 1918 ... Irkutsk is therefore also called ‘Russia in miniature’, always ahead of the rest of the country, towards a future ...