Siberian mountains
You’re being sent to Siberia!
The frozen tundra...
A death sentence for some ….
Because of Siberia’s remoteness, people would be exiled there with no hope of escape due to extreme temperatures, forests, animals; it was a huge prison….
At least that’s how it used to be in old-time Russia.
But times have changed.
Black Gold....
Photograph by: Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic June 2008
Under communist rule, the U.S.S.R. was a major oil producer, with western Siberia providing most of the supply. Soviet production peaked in 1988 at around 12.5 million barrels per day (bbd), two-thirds of which came from western Siberia. Just before communism collapsed in 1991, oil production began falling, bottoming out in the mid-1990s at a little over six million bbd. Not until the late 1990s did production take off again.
Meet the new Siberia à here
