Recently, a team of archaeologists discovered the world's oldest fortress, which was erected around 8,000 years ago in a remote region of Siberia. The fortress was located in western Siberia at an ...

During Soviet times, revised maps erased the name entirely ... which cross Russia from the Arctic Ocean to Kazakhstan, are the western edge of Siberia. The Urals also separate Europe from Asia.

The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...