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 * Joseph Stalin expelled an American Navy captain from Moscow after learning he had fathered a "love child" with a well-known Soviet film actress, who was then banished to Siberia for eight years.


 * 2004 Olympic silver medal winning Australian Opal Alicia Poto played basketball in Siberia after a contract fell through with a Czech club.


 * Between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass, who had proselytized in Siberia, published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian.