Eastern Siberia
Eastern Siberia is a part of Siberia that incorporates the territory located between the Yenisei River in the west and the Pacific Ocean divides in the east.Photo: beilinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tuva and Irkutsk.
Tuva
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Tuva or Tyva is a region in Eastern Siberia, bordering Altai to the west, Khakassia to the northwest, Krasnoyarsk to the north, Irkutsk Oblast to the northeast, Buryatia to the east, and Mongolia to the south.
Irkutsk
Ulan Ude
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Ulan Ude is the capital of Buryatia, known during Soviet times as the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Irkutsk Oblast
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Irkutsk Oblast is a region in Eastern Siberia, which borders Krasnoyarsk to the west, Evenkia to the northwest, Yakutia to the north, Zabaykalsky Krai to the northeast, Buryatia to the southeast, and Tuva to the southwest.
Buryatia
Zabaykalsky Krai
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The Eastern Siberian territory of Zabaykalsky Krai was formed in 2008 by the merger of Chita Oblast with its smaller neighbor Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug.
Lake Baikal
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Lake Baikal is a lake in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is the biggest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Eastern Siberia
- Type: region
- Description: geographical region
- Location: Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
54.5° or 54° 30′ northLongitude of center
107.2° or 107° 12′ eastWikidata ID
Q1191996
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yakut—“Eastern Siberia” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Սիբիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Sibir”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Сібір”
- Catalan: “Sibèria oriental”
- Chinese: “东西伯利亚”
- Chinese: “東西伯利亞”
- Chuvash: “Тухăç Çĕпĕр”
- Dutch: “Oost-Siberie”
- Dutch: “Oost-Siberië”
- Estonian: “Ida-Siber”
- French: “Sibérie orientale”
- German: “Ostsibirien”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Σιβηρία”
- Hebrew: “מזרח סיביר”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Szibéria”
- Italian: “Siberia orientale”
- Italian: “Siberia Orientale”
- Japanese: “東シベリア”
- Kazakh: “Şığıs Sibir”
- Kazakh: “Шығыс Сібір”
- Kazakh: “شىعىس ٴسىبىر”
- Korean: “동시베리아”
- Latin: “Siberia Orientalis”
- Latvian: “Austrumsibīrija”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Sibiras”
- Macedonian: “Источен Сибир”
- Mingrelian: “ბჟაეიოლი ცჷნდჷრი”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Сыбыр”
- Romanian: “Siberia Orientală”
- Russian: “Восточная Сибирь”
- Serbian: “Источни Сибир”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodna Sibirija”
- Spanish: “Siberia oriental”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Сибір”
- Venetian: “Sibèria orientałe”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Siberia”
- Yakut: “Илин Сибиир”
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