"As a small, poor boy in a small Siberian town, I remember hearing about the Rockefellers and, magically, here I am."

Some Russian naval vessels have been used to supply electricity for domestic and industrial use in remote far eastern and Siberian towns.

Baikalsk itself is a typical Siberian town - rows of block apartments and neighborhoods of log houses with heaps of coal or wood in back.

They arrived in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk in October, just before winter 1942.

As a Siberian town, Severobaykalsk experiences a subarctic climate, characterized by extreme variation of temperatures between seasons.

He also founded the Siberian town of Barnaul, whose central square still bears his name.

In the 19th and the 20th centuries, Balagansk, along with all Siberian towns, was widely used for political exile.

The Soviets took him to the Siberian town of Chita.

Bukharan merchants frequently came to Siberian towns in search of furs.

In 1937, the secret police of the Siberian town of Kolpashevo executed more than 1,000 people, dumping their bodies into a deep ditch by a riverbank.