Western Siberia

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• Western Siberia oil and gas bearing province — is the world’s largest province of oil and gas reserves and resources. It occupies the lowland of the same name and the water area of the Southern Kara Sea. Administratively, it is located within the Yamal Nenets and Khanty Mansiysk Autonomous… …   Glossary of Oil and Gas

• Siberia — • A Russian possession in Asia forming the northern third of that continent Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Siberia     Siberia     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• SIBERIA — (Rus. Sibir), Asiatic part of the Russian Federation, extending from the Urals in the west to the Pacific in the east. The first Jews went to Siberia from Lithuanian towns captured by the Russians in the Russo Polish war (1632–34); they were… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Siberia — Siberian redirects here. For the cat breed, see Siberian (cat). This article is about Siberia as a whole. For the federal district, see Siberian Federal District. For other uses, see Siberia (disambiguation). Coordinates: 60°0′N 105°0′E /  …   Wikipedia

• Siberia — Siberian, adj., n. /suy bear ee euh/, n. 1. Russian, Sibir . an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. 2. any undesirable or isolated locale, job, etc., to which one is assigned as… …   Universalium

• Siberia, Siberia — ( ru. Сибирь, Сибирь...) is a non fiction book by the Russian writer Valentin Rasputin. It was originally published in Russian in 1991 by Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers. The second and third editions appeared in 2000 and 2006; an English… …   Wikipedia

• Siberia, Northern and Eastern —    Siberia (a vast landmass stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the borders of Mongolia and China in the south, and eastwards to the Pacific Ocean) is the so called locus classicus of shamanism. The term shaman itself derives from… …   Historical dictionary of shamanism

• Western betrayal — or Yalta betrayal are popular terms in many Central European countries, especially in Poland and the Czech Republic which refers to the foreign policy of several Western countries which violated allied pacts and agreements during the period from… …   Wikipedia

• Western Marsh Harrier — Adult male (front), juvenile (behind) and adult female (back) Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Siberia —    For nineteenth century Russia, Siberia was a resource frontier like the legendary American West for the United States. Until the peasant liberation of 1861, migration to Siberia was mostly compulsory. Exiles were forced to work in Siberian… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Siberia, Western —    The territory that lies to the east of the Ural Mountains is a vast lowland covered in taiga forest which extends toward the Arctic Ocean in the north and, to the east, to the network of rivers in the basin of the Ob, the largest Siberian… …   Historical dictionary of shamanism