Russia
Most of Northern European Russia and Siberia has a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of Northeast Siberia (mostly the Sakha Republic, where the Northern Pole of Cold is located with the record low temperature of −71.2 °C/−96.2 °F), and more moderate elsewhere. The strip of land along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, as well as the Russian Arctic islands, have a polar climate. Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons—winter and summer; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high. The coldest month is January (February on the coastline), the warmest usually is July. Great ranges of temperature are typical. In winter, temperatures get colder both from south to north and from west to east. Summers can be quite hot, even in Siberia.The continental interiors are the driest areas.
The tea market continues to develop The annual volume of the Russian tea market in 2002 has grown. It has demonstrated persistent increase in terms of volume by 3% and in terms of value by 7%. The source of the growth is the increase of the population income and number of the tea factories in Russia, improvements in the production and logistics functions, development of the retail chains. The tea production in Russia grows For the last several years there has been a stable growth of the bulk tea import to Russia. After the tariff rates for the import of the bulk and packed tea had been differentiated it became more profitable to carry out the secondary processing and packing of the bulk tea on the territory of the Russian Federation. This led to the dramatic change in the import structure - the share of the bulk tea import increased from 30% in 1998 to 68% in 2002. The state investment policy triggered the intensive development of the tea production capacities in Russia and facilitated the present situation when