The capital of the Siberian(1) Federal District of Russia(2), Novosibirsk(3), is on the Ob' River, by its own reservoir, and also on the Trans-Siberian railroad. It is not far from the Kuzbass coal and iron deposits.
(1) Sibirskaya in one version of transliterated Russian.
(2) Rossiya or Rossija in strictly transliterated Russian.
(3) It means New Siberia in Russian.