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Siberian nuclear power plant

The Siberian Nuclear Power Station (Сибирская АЭС) was a dual-purpose Soviet nuclear plant producing weapons-grade plutonium while generating electricity and heat, shut down in 2008.

The Siberian Shelf comprises the Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas, the world's widest, shallowest continental shelf (20–30 m average depth), dominated by Siberian river freshwater, relic subsea permafrost, and rapid sea-ice retreat.

Sep 24, 2026

Siberian Statutes of 1822

The Siberian Statutes of 1822 (Сибирское учреждение 1822 года) were ten laws approved by Alexander I on 22 July 1822, prepared by Mikhail Speransky to reorganize Siberia's government.

Siberian tiger

Siberian tiger (Amur tiger, Panthera tigris altaica), the largest and northernmost tiger subspecies of the Russian Far East and Northeast China; preys on sika deer, wild boar, roe deer; recovering sixfold in SW Primorsky since 1996 but genetically bottlenecked.

Siberian Tiger Park (东北虎林园)

Siberian Tiger Park (东北虎林园), Harbin, Heilongjiang: captive Amur tiger breeding and tourism park founded 1996 under the 1986 Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center, holding nearly 1,000 tigers, funded by a 'raise tigers on tigers' ticket-revenue model.

Siberian Tiger Park (长春东北虎园)

Siberian Tiger Park (长春东北虎园, Jilin Siberian Tiger Park) is a 50-hectare free-range wildlife park in Jingyuetan Forest Park, Changchun, opened 2009; it rescues and breeds endangered wildlife, keeps pandas Chuxin and Muyun, and pilots drone feeding.

Siberian Traps

The Siberian Traps (Сибирские траппы) is a large igneous province in Siberia whose eruptions around 252 million years ago likely triggered the end-Permian mass extinction.

Siberut

Siberut, the largest and northernmost Mentawai Island off western Sumatra, Indonesia; 4,480 km², indigenous Mentawai majority, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1981, four endemic primates, and a locked megathrust section last ruptured in 1797.

Oct 20, 2026

Siberut Biosphere Reserve

Siberut Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer Pulau Siberut), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 1981 on Siberut Island, Mentawai Archipelago, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 403,000 ha with Siberut National Park as core area and four endemic Mentawai primates.

Sibi Malayil (സിബി മലയിൽ)

Sibi Malayil (സിബി മലയിൽ), Malayalam cinema director born 1956 in Alappuzha; debut Mutharamkunnu P.O. (1985), about 47 films, Lohithadas collaborations Kireedam, Bharatham, Akashadoothu, comeback Kotthu (2022).

Sibi Sathyaraj

Sibi Sathyaraj (Sibiraj; born 1982, Chennai) is a Tamil film actor, son of actor Sathyaraj (Baahubali's Kattappa). Known for thrillers such as Naaigal Jaakirathai, Sathya, Kabadadaari, and Ten Hours (2025); launched Underdog Films in 2026.

Sibila

Sibila is a Brazilian magazine of poetry and culture founded in São Paulo in 2001 by poet Régis Bonvicino, printed until 2006 and digital since.

Sibilant

Sibilants are hissing fricatives and affricates such as s, z, sh, and zh, made with a grooved tongue channel directing an air jet at the teeth, producing concentrated high-frequency turbulence; also a term in audio recording and speech pathology.

SiBionics (硅基仿生)

SiBionics (硅基仿生) is a Chinese medical-device company founded in Shenzhen in 2015 that makes continuous glucose monitors, including China's first calibration-free CGM approved by the NMPA.

Sibirskie Ogni

Sibirskie Ogni (Сибирские огни, "Siberian Lights") is a Russian literary-artistic and socio-political journal founded in Novosibirsk in 1922, the oldest currently existing literary periodical in Russia.

Sibirskoye Oil Field

Sibirskoye Oil Field (Сибирское месторождение) is an operating onshore conventional oil field in Perm Krai, Russia, near Usolye in the northern Volga-Ural basin, operated by Lukoil-Perm, a LUKOIL subsidiary.

Sep 24, 2026

Sibirsky Prikaz

The Sibirsky Prikaz (Сибирский приказ), or Siberian Chancellery, was the Russian state institution governing all Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific, created in 1637 and abolished in 1763.

Sibiu

Sibiu (Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben), Transylvanian county seat in Romania founded by Saxon colonists, first documented 1191; Habsburg-era capital of Transylvania and 2007 European Capital of Culture.

Sibiu Literary Circle

The Sibiu Literary Circle (Cercul literar din Sibiu) was a Romanian literary group formed in Sibiu during World War II, known for its 1943 Europeanizing manifesto.

Sibling

Sibling: a brother or sister sharing at least one parent, including full, half, step, and adoptive siblings. 82.22% of US youth lived with a sibling in 2010; warmth, low conflict, and equal treatment predict better mental health.

Sibling relationship

Sibling relationship: the emotional bond between brothers and sisters, often a person's longest close relationship. Covers what shapes its quality (attachment, parental differential treatment), links to child psychopathology, adult outcomes, twins, only children, and the life course.

Sibling-in-law

Sibling-in-law: a relative of one's generation connected by marriage, either a spouse's sibling or a sibling's spouse; gendered forms brother-in-law and sister-in-law; extended sense covers a spouse's sibling's spouse (co-sibling-in-law).

Siblings Day

Siblings Day, or National Siblings Day, is an unofficial April 10 holiday founded by Claudia Evart in 1995 for her late siblings, promoted by the Siblings Day Foundation and celebrated in 14 countries.

Siboga Expedition

The Siboga Expedition was a Dutch oceanographic expedition aboard H.M. Siboga, led by Max Weber, that surveyed the seas of the Dutch East Indies in 1899 and 1900.

Sibon

Sibon is a genus of neotropical snail-eating colubrid snakes (Dipsadinae, tribe Dipsadini), type species S. nebulatus, ranging from southern Mexico to South America, feeding on snails and slugs with specialized jaw mechanics.

Siboneyism

Siboneyism, also written siboneísmo, was a 19th-century Cuban indianista poetic movement using the extinct indigenous Siboney as a symbol of creole resistance to Spanish colonial rule.

Sibovc Coal Mine

The Sibovc Coal Mine is an open-pit lignite mine in Obiliq, near Pristina, Kosovo, operated by state-owned KEK and supplying the Kosova A and Kosova B power plants since 2010.

Sibrium

Sibrium, also recorded as Castrum Insubrorum, was an ancient fortified settlement at Castelseprio in Lombardy, Italy, remembered from the 7th century onward as a military and administrative center of the Insubres.

Sep 23, 2026

Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi

Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi (سبط ابن الجوزي) was a preacher and historian of Baghdad origin who spent his career in Ayyubid Damascus, living from about 1185 to 1256.