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Siberia has the largest area and the richest natural resources in Russia. It covers a great part of North Asia and stretches for more than 7,000 km from the eastern slope of the Ural mountains in the west to the mountain range of the Pacific Ocean watershed (the mountains confining the Kolyma basin) in the east, and from Cape Chelyuskin in the north to the south Altai mountain chains for a distance of about 3,500 km. A comparatively small southern area of the West Siberian lowland lies in the territory of the Kazakhstan Republic. This part of Kazakhstan (North-East Kazakhstan, parts of Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar regions) belongs to the single natural and geographical complex of Siberia. The Siberian region covers somewhat more than 10 million sq. km, or around 7% of the land territory of the Earth [1].
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Vasiliev, O.F. (1998). Siberian Rivers and Their Environmental Problems. In: Loucks, D.P. (eds) Restoration of Degraded Rivers: Challenges, Issues and Experiences. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2894-2_17
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