Winter in Siberia Seven months of cold, 500 kg of supplies were stored per person
The Russian Federation issued a total of four "notices" this year, three of which were for the recruitment of new recruits, and one for "winter preparations", since the situation in Russia is not optimistic, so the Russian Federation think tank **, the winter in Siberia will be even more difficult.
When winter comes, the inhabitants of many cities in Siberia have more than 500 catties of grain per person, not counting the consumption of wood and drinking water.
Siberia is a familiar place for Chinese, and the annual weather report mentions the "Siberian cold wave", and everyone knows that it is a cold place.
But most people don't know much about the cold in Siberia, and some even equate Siberia with the Northeast, feeling that it is colder and more troublesome there.
First of all, Siberia is part of Russia.
In 1778, the geographical concept of Siberia was sorted out by the satellite map of the Soviet Union, and it is still used today: the Ural Mountains, the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Russian-Mongolian border, and the Russian-Chinese border were all incorporated into Siberia, covering an area of 1.31 million square kilometers.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Siberia was divided into the Siberian District, the Ural District, and the Far East by the Russian Federation, with a total of 36,800,000 inhabitants, of which about 86% were Slavs, and the rest were Tuva, Yakutia, Buryatia, Altai, Mongolia and other indigenous peoples.
So, in the winter, will Siberia issue a "notice of combat readiness"? "Winter in Siberia is no different from fighting a war, and in order not to miss the best storage time for the local population, we have to prepare all the supplies before the winter comes, especially in Russia, which is even tighter than usual," said a friend in Yakutsk.
The source of this "war" is the Siberian cold wave, which spans the Arctic, subarctic, tundra, and humid land, and the north is cold all year round, while the southwest region is controlled by the cold air of the Middle East and Central Asia, so meteorologists divide it into a special region: the subarctic region, the cold air and warm current of Siberia, are all generated by this.
The latest round of "extreme" temperatures occurred in 2021, when the lowest temperature in Siberian Shaa was -624 degrees Celsius, while the highest temperature of the year was 48 degrees Celsius in Verkhoyansk, which is more than 1,000 kilometers away.
The Yana basin is the hottest region in Siberia, with a permafrost thickness of 1,493 meters discovered in 2017, Verkhoyansk is known as the "cold pole city" and Oymyakon is called the "cold pole village", with a maximum temperature of -70 degrees Celsius and -67 degrees Celsius in 2018.
Oymyakon has an "influencer grandmother" who told me that she would never want to be reincarnated in a place where she had no autonomy if she could, because she knew that even if she died, her children and grandchildren would suffer with her, and that it would take five days to dig a grave (to melt the ice on the surface with flames, then melt the dirt below, and then burn the dirt below).
From this, it can be seen that agriculture in Siberia is very poor, and everywhere except the Central Asian border requires accurate calculations to harvest vegetables and fruits once, and the output is very small.
But Siberia can not become a no-man's land, not only is it difficult to mine a large amount of mineral deposits, but also needs a large number of troops for defense, Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia attach great importance to the development of Siberia, so after the end of World War II, the United States launched the "Prison Rehabilitation Project" and launched the "New Siberian City" project, which attracted millions of Gulag captives, and many new cities appeared in Siberia.
In order to retain these newcomers, the Soviet Union provided them with housing, arranged them with a lifetime of work, arranged for them to have wives and children, provided them with free medical care and education, and gave them money, but still more than seventy percent of the Slavs chose to leave, and big cities like Novosibirsk and Vladivostok were too cold, too remote, and too difficult to endure, so those who stayed here were half of them.
There are seven months of winter in Siberia, and everyone has to stay here for seven months. ”
The Yakut director's statement is a bit exaggerated, but he is talking about the situation in Siberia, since the end of August, the federal ** will repeatedly send electronic messages to the people every day, and the local ** will also hold loudspeakers and go door-to-door to publicize, so that the villagers can prepare more food and firewood.
In September, it was the season for heating in the city, the first snow in October covered the heating pipes on the surface, and now it's real winter, all mining and outdoor activities have stopped, and those who meet the criteria are sent to Sochi (a tropical city on the Black Sea) to wait for next April. Most of the rest of the people will stay at home for a week.