Siberia/Siberian

Tundra Forest of Middle Siberian High Plain South Taiga Forest of West Siberia ... 

Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, Siberia, Russia... 

Historically, chromium ore was known as Siberian red lead, which was used to make bright red paints. The source was soon identified as the mineral crocoite, and analysis indicated that it also contained lead. In 1797 the French chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763—1829) discovered chromium while studying some minerals that were collected in Siberia. To isolate the pure metal from its oxide, he first dissolved the lead out of the mineral with hydrochloric acid (HCl), leaving crystals of chromium oxide, which he then heated. To his surprise he ended up with crystals of pure chromium metal. 

Peter Simon Pallas, 1741-1811, German scientist who made extensive scientific journeys to study the natural history of Russia and Siberia. He described the Beresof gold mines and the Siberian red lead (crocoite) in 1770. 

Fascinated for nearly a half century by Siberian use of Amanita muscaria mushrooms, Wasson compared Native American practices and concluded that shamanistic employment of Fly Agaric was "circumpolar in extent and that the rituals were similar. The only important difference he found was in regard to the "reindeer symbolism associated with these mushrooms in Siberia in North America, there is no such symbolism because there are no such animals. Remarkable similarities in practices and beliefs had already been described by the Wassons in Mushrooms, Russia and History (1957) ... 

The earliest report found by the Wassons about Siberian Amanita muscaria practices came from a Polish prisoner of war, who wrote in 1658 about the "Ob-Ugrian Ostyak of the Irtysh region in western Siberia. Published in 1874, it says "They eat certain fungi in the shape of fly-agarics, and thus they get drunk worse than on vodka, and for them that s the very best banquet. ... 

The vocation of shaman is found in nearly all archaic cultures, from the Australian aborigines to the Jivaro Indians of central Ecuador and Pern to the Yakut tribes of Siberia. It is believed to have originated among these Siberian peoples, though its diffusion into other cultures must have taken place very early in prehistory for, along with sorcerers, magicians, and priests, shamanism can be counted among the oldest of professions. 

Wooden J. L., Czamanske G. K., Fedorenko V. A., Arndt N. T., Chauvel C., Bouse R. M., King B. W., Knight R. J., and Siems D. F. (1993) Isotopic and trace-element constraints on mantle and crustal contributions to Siberian continental flood basatls, Noril sk area, Siberia. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 3677-3704. 

Huh Y., Tsoi M.-Y., Zaitsev A., and Fdmond J. M. (1998) The fluvial geochemistry of the rivers of Eastern Siberia I. Tributaries of the Lena river draining the sedimentary platform of the Siberian Craton. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, 1657-1676. 

The Mendeleev family then suffered a series of catastrophes. First, Mendeleev s father died in 1847. The following year, the glass factory burned to the ground. Maria decided that she would take her two remaining dependent children, Dimitri and his sister, Liza, to Moscow so that Dimitri could get higher education. The three made the 1,300-mile journey on foot and in wagons when they could find rides. In Moscow, the Mendeleevs bad luck continued. Entry to the university was based on a quota system, but Siberia had not yet been assigned a quota, so Dimitri was not even considered for admission. Other schools in Moscow simply turned down his applications because his Siberian education was not seen as adequate. 

The plant Eleutherococcus senticosus is a thorny bush that grows in Siberia and Northern China. The English name of the drug has at least three synonyms, Spring eleutherococcus , Thorny ginseng and Siberian ginseng . 

Siberia. It is possible that the Siberian value of 15 mg 1 1 represents the continental background of Europe and Asia. 

In 1730 a Swedish colonel named Filip Johann von Strahlenberg, who had been for twelve years a prisoner of war in Siberia published an detailed account of life among the Siberian peoples. In a discussion of the Koryaks of the Kamchatka Peninsula (on the Bering Sea), von Strahlenberg stated ... 

Then they learned of the Siberian use oiAmanita muscaria in shamanic rituals, and their bold surmise was vindicated. n Mushrooms Russia atid History sons presented a review of eighteenth and nineteenth century reports of mushroom inebriation in Siberia. This remarkable book was destined to stimulate modem awareness of the entheogenic potential oiAmanita muscaria, even though only 512 copies were printed. 

The position of India and China is similar in another respect in that both countries have opportunities to import substantial volumes of pipeline gas China from Central Asia, Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East India from the Gulf and Central Asia. The location and magnitude of the Russian resources in Eastern Siberia and the Ear East means that the natural market will be China and there will be only limited competition for these resources from other importers and also that for East Siberian gas the most efficient means of transport will be via pipeline rather than as LNG. 

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