NUM-TŪREM. The Khanty (Ostiaks) and the Mansi (Voguls) live in an area in northwestern Siberia bordered on the west by the Ural Mountains. For the most part, they are settled on the banks of the rivers there, with the Ob River flowing through...

Coordinates: 60°00′N, 60°00′E The Ural Mountains (Russian: Ура́льские го́ры, Uralskiye gory) (also known as the Urals, the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, and known as the Stone Belt) are a mountain range that...

Gem Pegmatites of the Ural Mountains, Russia Peter Lyckberg BF2785 L- 1027 Laxembourgl Viktor Ye. Zagorsky Laboratory of Pegmatite Geochemistry A.P. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irkutsk, 664033, Russia...

Over 200 experienced railroad construction workers traveled to Siberia in 1917 as members of the Russian Railway Service Corps (RRSC). The RRSC had been formed through an invitation from Alexander Kerensky, leader of the provisional Bolshevik government, to improve the Trans-Siberian Railway. Karensky was...

As Alexander Litvinenko lay dying of radioactive polonium in a London hospital, a fellow former KGB agent wrote angry letters from a Ural Mountain prison colony saying he had warned that a government hit squad was hunting Litvinenko.After a series of sensational accusations by prisoner...

As Alexander Litvinenko lay dying at a London hospital, a fellow former KGB agent wrote angry letters from a Ural Mountains prison colony saying his warnings that a government hit squad had been hunting Litvinenko were ignored.After a series of sensational accusations by Mikhail Trepashkin,...