INTO SIBERIA: George Kennan’s Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia, by Gregory J. Wallance George Kennan lost his faith in the Russian city of Tomsk.

Temperatures in parts of the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia and located in the northeastern part of Siberia, went below minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) on December 5.

If you want to know just how cold and snowy the winter here in much of the U.S. will be, look no further than far away Siberia, the "refrigerator for the Northern Hemisphere," meteorologist Judah ...