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> Huge swaths of eurasian landmass is uninhabitable because of harsh climate

This gets repeated over and over but looks false.

Why is the city of Ryazan on five centuries older than the city of Voronezh just 200 km to the south? One is in cold swampy forests and the other one is temperate grasslands. And you see this pattern everywhere where barely arable places such as Vjatka are populated for a long time but Krasnodar only recently populated.