FAR NORTH SIBERIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200020047-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 34
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: May 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Fad Noxt'n Siberia
L%~sie Sovietiquertistique
InstitX National de la nu s
et d.es Etudes JjconomiQ.
Paris, 19L9
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GEOGRAPHY OF FAR NORTH S'IEERT
Northern Siberia, which occupies the entire.northern part of the
Asiatic continent, hts the Glacial Arctic ocean as its norther boundary
from the Urals to the Bering Sea, which extends from 70 degrees
longitude, east, to 169 degrees longitude, west. Its northern coastal
boundary is 15,900 kilometers long. This study is concerned with
the territory extending southward to the 62nd degree N. latitude,
the political boundary under the Administration of the Northern Sea
Route.
A plain extends from t he Urals eastward to the Yenisei river.
Formerly covered by the sea, this plain emerged in the tertiary
period only to be flooded again by the glaciers in the quarternary
period.
After the Iamal peninsula, we find the great Ob estuary, a branch
of the sea, usually called the White Siberian Sea, which is 800 kilo-
meters long and 17 kilometers at its widest point.
Further to the east is the mouth of the Yenisei river, which is
350 kilometers long and 17 kilometers at its widest point. To the
north, the Taimyr peninusla, a plateau with an altitude of 600 to
9,00 meters, extends to Cape Chelyuskin, the highest latitude of
the
Asiatic continent, North of this peninsula are found the three islands'
of the North Land. Southe of the Taimyr peninsula is a vast mountainous
plateau of eastern Siberia, which extends from the Yenisei river to
the Bering and the Okhotsk seas. In this system are included the
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