Asia contains Russia.
Asia . It also has a mix of many different climates ranging from the equatorial south via the hot desert in the Middle East , temperate areas in the east and the continental centre to vast subarctic and polar areas in Siberia . Russia . Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe , Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms . Siberia . Siberia has historically been a part of Russia since the 17th century . The Ural Mountains ( [ Ура́льские го́ры , r = Uralskiye gory , p = ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈgorɨ ] Урал тауҙары , Ural tauźarı ) , or simply the Urals , are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia , from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan .