Archival references point to a small wooden church in the Siberian village of Tatarskaya as a particular inspiration for the final design.

On Monday, in a Siberian village, a flash fire killed 21 children in a school gymnasium dressing room.

On Monday in a remote east Siberian village, 22 schoolchildren lost their lives as a blaze tore through their wooden schoolhouse.

After four years, Vladimir Lenin was released from his exile to the Siberian village of Shushenskoye.

With unemployment as high as 50 percent in many Siberian villages, hunting can seem an attractive profession.

He and his band of raiders have terrorized Siberian villages for years.

Rasputin, an evil mystic whose raiders have plagued Siberian villages for years, sends a messenger to Europe to find his daughter.

There is an old man named Yermolai Voyevodin living in a Siberian village.

The Soviets, meanwhile, said their records showed he was born in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye in 1941.

Some sources say he was born in a Siberian village, and that the year of his birth was 1941.