Challenge: Fill Up Russia

So the challenge is to increase population and population density in Russia.
Guys, why spoil a good country?
It is good as it is. If you fly over boundless vastness of Siberia for hours and hours without any hint of human civilization beneath you it is so poetic, it is so... russian.

IIRC Stolypin made a great plan involving peasants getting near-free land if they agree to have it in Siberia, or somesuch.
Maybe if he isn't assassinated like he was IOTL, and lives well into the 1910s (and if that somehow butterflies away the Revolution, into the 1920s)...
Stolypin was a great politician, but I doubt he could butterfly away world war I. And with the Great war the revolution was inevitable I think.
Give or take a year...

The land just can't support more people. You would have to import huge amount of food, and it would be incredibly expensive.
the area overall is generally inhospitable to any but the groups who've lived their for thousands of years (and thus have adapted to it).
If we are speaking about the Southern Siberia (and the Far East) it is very productive. Continental climate means 'very cold winters - very hot summers'. You even can grow grapes there, that'a a fact.
Of course the weather in the areas beyond the Arctic Circle are similar to Mars in winter. But even there in summer you can grow strawberries on your garden bed in the open. I myself did it:)

Well, Siberia doesn't really have much fish, unless you are on the small coast.
Actually in Russia the word 'Siberia' is a synonym to 'the land of plenty'. Especially plenty of fish:)
 
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