SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Moscow
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Kazan
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Siberia
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Sochi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Russia has oil and gas production facilities throughout the country, but the bulk of its fields are concentrated in western and eastern Siberia.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are large oil fields north of Tyumen and Omsk. The vast Tyumen oil fields lie in a vast area of wetlands north of Tomsk. There is also oil in Surgut. The main European oil and gas fields are located in the Volga-Ural region, the North Caucasus, and the far north of the Republic of Komi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Highly organic-rich siliceous shales of the Bazhenov Formation were deposited during this time in anoxic conditions on the sea bottom. Rocks of this formation have generated more than 80 percent of West Siberian oil reserves and probably a substantial part of its gas reserves.