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The territory of Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins. Siberia stretches southwards from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and to the national borders of Mongolia and China.With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres, Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to just 40 million people â 27% of the country's population.he climate in West Siberia (Omsk, Novosibirsk) is several degrees warmer than in the East (Irkutsk, Chita) where in the north an extreme winter subarctic climate (Koeppen KÃ¶ppen dfd Or) dwd. Prevails but summer temperatures in other regions can +reach Â°38 (c Â°100). f
Just How Cold is Siberia in Winter? I just finished my second trip on the Trans Siberian Railway, an epic journey that took me from Tallinn, Estonia to Vladivostok, Russia by land. I went in late fall the first time across, and although it snowed in every Russian city I visited I was left wondering just how cold it gets in the dead of winter. This year I set off for Siberia in February which ensured a very frozen but very beautiful trip. This is Siberian cold: