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Cold, colder, coldest: in the south and west of Siberia, meteorologists have set new cold records.

In the village of Teguldet near the city of Tomsk, the thermometer dropped to minus 49 degrees over the weekend, a weather expert told the Russian state agency Tass on Monday.

"Western Siberia made a deep impression on the meteorologists."

In Novosibirsk the temperature was between minus 37 and minus 41 degrees.

Earlier records in Siberia's largest city were topped by 5 degrees.

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In other regions it was as cold as in the past 50 to 100 years, the spokesman said.

According to the authorities, many people had to be treated with frostbite.

There have also been numerous traffic accidents and flight cancellations.