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25.09.2021 03:43 •  Английский язык

Перевести текст, the territory os siberia is about ten million square kilometres. you can find here taiga, swamps, tundra and permafrost. the name siberia comes from "sibir", a mongolian word for "a sleeping land". there are more than thirty nationalities in siberia. nevertheless siberia is a vastly under populated region. only 23 percent of the russian population lives in siberia. siberia is located between the urals in the west and the russian far east in the east. it borders on kazakhstan and mongolia in the south. it is washes by the arctic ocean in the north. siberia consists of two parts: western siberia and eastern siberia. the yenisei separates western siberia from easten siberia. the main rivers of siberia are the ob. the irtysh, the yenisei, the angara and the lena. most of the rivers flow into the arctic ocean. the most famous mountains are the altai and sayan mountains. the climate of siberia is very severe. it means sharp change from heat to cold. permafrost is 1 km 600 m deep in some places. siberia is famous for its natural resources: oil, gas, salt, iron-ore, mica, gold, silver, copper, diamond. it is rich in timber. siberia has vast deposits of coal. siberia is the main supplier of valuable furs: sable, ermine, fox, squirrel, mink, musquash, and polar-fox. siberia is a very big fuel and energy complex. the angara-yenisei cascade of hudroelectric power stations produces electric power the cheapest in the world. there are many industrial centers in siberia. angarsk and usolye are famous for chemical industry. bratsk and irkutsk are famous for hudroelectric power stations; bodaibo is famous for gold mining. irkutsk, novosibirsk and tomsk are well-known educational and scientifik centers. let's remember the words of michail lomonosov: "russian power will grow greater with siberia". this land is considered to be the continent of the future.