Western Siberia

Western Siberia is part of Siberia, located between the Ural mountains in the west and the Yenisei riverbed in the east. The region's area is 2 451.1 thousand km² (15% of the territory of Russia). The population of the Russian part of Western Siberia is 14.6 million people. (as of 1.1.2010), that is, about 10% of the Russian population . The population density is 6 people. for 1 km².

Western Siberia is a territory stretching for two and a half thousand kilometers from the Arctic Ocean to the heights of the Kazakh melkosopochnik and to the one thousand nine hundred kilometers from the mountains of the Urals to the Yenisei. About eighty percent of the area of ​​Western Siberia is located within the West Siberian Plain, consisting of two flat bowl-shaped heavily swamped depressions, separated by Siberian Uvals, elevated to 175-200 m. In the southeast, the West Siberian Plain, gradually rising, is replaced by the foothills of Altai, Salair, Kuznetsk Alatau and Mountain Shoria.