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[–]WATTHEBALL 6 points7 points  (17 children)

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Why is there so much activity in Russia? Like I thought that vast remote part of Russia was pretty much baron?

[–]enbeez 42 points43 points  (0 children)

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Nah, Russia got rid of its nobility in 1917.

[–]underamour100 3 points4 points  (5 children)

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What do you see of Russia here besides St Petersburg? (Ok Kaliningrad and couple of other swaths, too).

Edit: ah, stupid me, was talking about the European map. I saw the comments in a different order. Russian lights are not at remote as you might think if you compare to a flat political map.

[–]Atheist101 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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The two biggest circles in Russia are Moscow and St. Petersburg but I think he was talking about the scattered lights across the Siberian Tundra

[–]WATTHEBALL 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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This is what I was talking about, thanks.

[–]EatSleepJeep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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The bright concentration of light due north of India are the Samotlor Oil Fields and the gas fields of Yamalia. Further north and west is more production fields in Nenetsia.

The rough east-west line from Moscow is the Trans Siberian Railway.

[–]MrTimmer -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

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Do you mean on the Europe map or the World map?

On the Europe map you can't see a lot of Russia but on the world map you can, offcourse, see it all. And I have to say, there are more lights than I was expecting. Must be the cities

Edit; didn't want to put the few words in but I seem to have missed part of what I wanted to deleted. I was writing something a friend of mine said today. He just came back from a 2 month trip to China from Europe ridding the train all the way there and back. Stopping for a few days in a lot of towns and cities along to way in Russia and other countries. He said the number of big cities he has visited that were not even on the map was too damn high. But then I thought he might have been talking about China. I didn't know for sure so I deleted it. But not all of it...

[–]WATTHEBALL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Earth map...that's the post I replied to.

[–]Dwotci 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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The two large groups of bright lights in Siberia are oil fields, cities are concentrated in Western Russia and (in Siberia) along the southern border.

[–]Bluenosedcoop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I think the mass of lights in central/north Russia (directly north of India) is due to the large oil/gas industry up there.

[–]Teckel22[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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I don't know but maybe the light is coming from oil/gas fields?

[–]Bluenosedcoop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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It is Russia largest gas field.

[–]jez02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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There are some pretty big cities out east in Russia, yo. Lots of smaller ones too. Novosibirsk, Omsk and you name it.

[–]danrennt98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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along the transsiberian railroad

[–]turkeyfox -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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*barren

[–]bogeyhunter -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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