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Stroganina being sliced

• Stroganina (example pictured) is a popular raw fish dish among native Siberians.

• Yugoslav communist Karlo Štajner survived 17 years in the Gulag camps, and later wrote a book titled Seven Thousand Days in Siberia.

• Tygerberg Zoo sought to breed look-alikes to South Africa's Cape lions, extinct since the 1850s, with two cubs from Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia.