Tropical cyclones in Russia

Russia is a nation in Eastern Europe and North Asia which is susceptible to the possibility for tropical cyclones to significantly impact its coastal regions. Many of these cyclones affect Siberia, especially Primorsky Krai and the Sakhalin Oblast as extratropical cyclones. However, a minority have affected European Russia.^[1][2]

Of the tropical cyclones which track into Russia from the east, many of them traveled through Northeast China, the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, entering the Kamchatka Peninsula as a result. A 2022 study stated that this may be in part due to an interaction with a mid-latitude trough.^[3] Many typhoons track into Russia as weakening cyclones, however, if a tropical cyclone is intense, some may track into the nation as typhoons despite the wind speed reduction caused by high latitudes.^[4] Studies have stated that due to global climate change, in the near future, there will be a probable northwards shift of tropical cyclone trajectories into the Russian Far East.^[4]