any undesirable or isolated locale,
job, etc., to which one is assigned as punishment, a
mark of disfavor, or the like. From
Siberia: the northeastern region of Russia in
Asia; a
vast geographical region with no precise boundaries, approximately 2.9 million
square miles, it extends east across
North Asia from the
Urals (mountain
range in the
west Soviet
Union) to the
Pacific coast region known as the Soviet
far east.
—SHSBC Binder 26 Approved Glossary