Portal:Siberia/Facts/3

• Forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981.

• Eruptions of Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground.

• In 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China.