What is it? Let’s define “fairly major” as having population over 500,000, or as being a place that many relatively geographically savvy non-Russians would have heard of (so that Makhachkala, for instance, doesn’t qualify). The answer, at least as best I can tell, is hidden below in this post.
Vladivostok — it’s a Siberian city, and generally rightly thought to be quite cold (the average annual temperature is +5 C), but it’s actually pretty far south by Russian standards, at 43.10 N; only the southernmost tip of the Caucusus, at least parts of which are considerably warmer, rivals it in Russia.
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