SIBERIA

Home of the 2,700-mile-long Lena River

• Classic exile site

• Cold land

• Cold place to be banished to

• Cold Russian region

• Faraway place, so to speak

• Frigid Russian region

• Home of Omsk and Tomsk

• Husky's home ground

• Inhospitable place

• Isolation figuratively

• Location of Lake Baikal

• More than half of Russia

• Much of Asia

• Neighbor of Irkutsk on a Risk board

• Out-of-the-way place, so to speak

• Place of exile

• Remote place, metaphorically speaking

• Risk territory

• Russian cold zone

• Sight from the Bering Sea

• Symbol of inhospitable remoteness

• The Urals are west of it

• Where mammoths were first discovered

• Where the Ob flows

• Where the Samoyed dog comes from

• Wintry Russian region

• Famous for long cold winters

• A vast Asian region of Russia