Sibirien

The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva, a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological …

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost …

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its …

No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which …

In 1725 the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, signed orders for Vitus Bering to set out on the First Kamchatka Expedition in order to establish if Asia and North America were …

'Some cookbooks take you on a journey that is as poetic as it is geographical and culinary, and Salt & Time is just such a one...enthusiastic, often playful, and full of …

Vanha mies seisoo vanginvartijan vieressä oikeussalissa. Hän on karannut Siperian vankileiriltä. Miehestä näkyy, että hänellä on joskus ollut voimaa. Nyt hän on kuitenkin vain …

The distinguished Russian archeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov’s study reveals how a field archeologist goes about determining and writing prehistory. Over the course of his career, …

The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic …

Within the joint German-Russian research project "e;Siberian River Run-off (SIRRO)"e; multidisciplinary studies were carried out in the Ob and Yenisei estuaries and …