Siberia
Siberia was a location in Russia.
Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Beyond Siberia lay Alaska, which the Fifth Doctor described as the "stepping stone between America and Asia". (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead) The Bering Strait was a strait running between East Russia and Alaska. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 9th century, one of the Three Custodians buried part of the remains of a Dalek in Siberia. (TV: Resolution)
Peter the Great believed that there was a part of America beyond Siberia and sent explorers to prove it, which they did when they reached Alaska about eight years later. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead [+]Loading...["The Land of the Dead (audio story)"])
20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1903, the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman visited Zarechny in Siberia, where they met Grigori Rasputin. (AUDIO: The Wanderer)
In 1908, the Dalek saucer Survey Ship Delta crashed on the wastelands of Siberia and exploded, leaving no survivors. (COMIC: The Dalek Project)
In 1916, the Spy Master, who pretended to be Grigori Rasputin and lived in a house in Siberia, was visited by a messenger, who delivered him a message from Tsarina, calling him to the Winter Palace. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
In 1927, a Vondraxian orb was found in Siberia. One person was exposed to the tachyon radiation. The KVI tried to extract the tachyons by killing him, but they dissipated after death. (PROSE: Trace Memory)
During World War II, the curator of the Palace Museum in Leningrad fled to Siberia with the collection of treasures after the invading armies of Nazi Germany surrounded the city. (PROSE: Cabinets of Curiosities)
Coming from 1982, Professor Hayter, a passenger aboard Golf Victor Foxtrot, suggested that they had landed in Siberia, "behind the Iron Curtain", and asked Stapley how the Russians let him land in Golf Alpha Charlie; both planes had, in fact, passed through a time corridor to the distant past. (TV: Time-Flight [+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"])
21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2003, there were hot spots of Agent Yellow dotted along the Urals in Siberia. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps [+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"])
On 1 January 2019, part of the Dalek buried in the 9th century was activated in Siberia after another component was activated in Sheffield by ultraviolet light. (TV: Resolution)
Alternate timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]
Orphan 55[[edit] | [edit source]]
In one possible timeline where Earth was eventually designated Orphan 55, Novosibirsk was destroyed and left in ruins due to the effects of nuclear war and climate change. Tranquility Spa was built near these ruins, in former Siberia, where it was protected by an ionic membrane.
When the Thirteenth Doctor and friends visited, the spa came under attack by Dregs, and all survivors ventured out into the barren landscape beyond. It was in an underground tunnel, beneath Novosibirsk, that the Doctor realised they had been on Earth all along. (TV: Orphan 55)
