Yuyan was born in the United States but spent much of his early childhood with his #Nanai grandmother in northern #Manchuria, which is the #Chinese portion of #Siberia.
The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels on Thursday after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.The deluge of meltwater has forced over 110,000 people from their homes in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major...
Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth
Sudden and violent explosions have been leaving behind massive #craters in the #permafrost of #Siberia — some nearly 70 feet wide and over 170 feet deep. The phenomenon has puzzled scientists since the first of these #explodingcraters were discovered back in 2012.
New #research paper just out: We simulated climate-driven #wildfires 🔥 and their impacts on forests in #Yakutia, eastern #Siberia, throughout ~20,000 years since the LGM ❄️ in the individual-based model LAVESI-FIRE 🌲
Results show stand-replacing fires decreasing larch dominance, and the occurrence of different post-fire regeneration pathways under similar fire regimes.
Today in Labor History December 28, 1943: Soviet authorities began Operation Ulussy, the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia. They forcibly relocated over 93,000 people of Kalmyk nationality in cattle wagons on December 28–31 to forced labor camps. The government accused them all of collaborating with the Nazis based on the roughly 5,000 Kalmyks who fought in the Nazi-affiliated Kalmykian Cavalry Corps. However, over 23,000 Kalmyks served in the Red Army and fought against Axis forces at the same time. The deportation resulted in more than 16,000 deaths. Overall, the Soviet government deported millions of ethnic minorities from the 1930s-‘50s, and hundreds of thousands died in the process. In 1956, Khrushchev rehabilitated The Kalmyks. In 1989 the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union declared all of Stalin's deportations "illegal and criminal."
Great reporting by @spoke32 in @NewsfromScience about groundbreaking research by @hennypiezonka and colleagues on some of the oldest-known fortified sites in the world:
🇷🇺 Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian billionaire who made a fortune in coal and fertilizer then found himself sanctioned after the invasion of Ukraine, now has a plan to stem methane emissions from the thawing Siberian permafrost: recreating a time when woolly mammoths roamed the tundra.
From 6:30-8pm on 22 Nov, catch the premiere for animated films made by children at the Marilyn Theatre in Loviisa, #Finland. Some of the films are made in cooperation with Artists at Risk (AR) resident, Gosha Elaev.
Elaev is an artist and curator from #Siberia. Currently in residence at Art in Lov, he had to flee his homeland due to threats received for the queer themes in his art.
Gosha Elaev’s residency is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.
Today in Labor History August 15, 1918: The American 27th Infantry landed in Vladivostok to join a Japanese-initiated attack against Bolshevist forces. The soldiers suffered from problems with fuel, ammunition, supplies, and food. Their horses, used to temperate climates, couldn’t function in sub-zero Russia. And their water-cooled machine guns froze and became useless. During their 19 months in Siberia, 189 U.S. soldiers died.
Upton Sinclair referenced the Siberian expedition in his novel “Oil!” and blamed capitalist motives for the intervention.
@fulelo With which army would #Russia wage war on South Africa? The entire Russian army is in #Ukraine, leaving Russia undefended. I am pretty sure #China is looking to settle some border disputes in the east. And maybe more, the wealth of resources in #Siberia.
Russia and Kazakhstan battle record floods as rivers rise further (www.reuters.com)
The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels on Thursday after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.The deluge of meltwater has forced over 110,000 people from their homes in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major...