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 * Richard Maack (pictured) was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East.


 * Many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II.


 * Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway.