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If Kievan Rus remained united and wasn't invaded by the Mongols, and East Slavs settled Siberia several centuries before they did historically, how populated could Siberia theoretically become?

In this case, Siberia would be settled to agricultural carrying capacity by the end of the pre-industrial era, and so its population would expand like Europe's or Japan's did with the start of industrialization.
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