“Russia’s Boreal forests, also known as the Taiga, is the largest forested region on Earth (approximately 12 million km2) and the Eastern-Siberian Taiga contains the largest expanse of untouched boreal forest in the world.  
The Taiga is dominated by coniferous trees that are very well adapted to harsh climatic conditions. Conifers are evolutionarily older than broad-leaved deciduous trees. They evolved under much more inhospitable conditions and so are better adapted to thin, nutrient-poor soils than their deciduous counterparts.
The Taiga harbors a majority of the world’s conifers and Russia is one of the world’s largest timber exporters, shipping almost a quarter of all lumber traded globally in 2019.”