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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 ...
'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that 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 ...
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 ...
The 'world's coldest city' with 355,000 residents where it hits a bone chilling -64C
However, all things considered, we Brits have it relatively easy compared to the world’s coldest city, where temperatures plunge to a bone-chilling 64C. Located 3,100 miles east of Moscow, Yakutsk is ...
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In From the Cold
A boy plays in the snow during Siberia's notoriously cold winter. Far from Kremlin leaders in Moscow and the frontlines of ...
Siberia, Iceland and other places where it's warmer today than in Livingston County
Temperatures dipped to 5 degrees in Howell early Monday, and the wind chill reached -9 degrees. It's colder than Siberia. Literally.