- Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva won the trust of a Siberian mammoth-tusk hunter by stitching up his injured hand.
- Jan Czerski exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, and was thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society.
- The Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky.