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Yeah the largest cities in Siberia do tend to have 'warmer' summers though by my standards they are far from warm.
However, check out these cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkuta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhangelsk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudinka
^^ Average highs (highest for year in summer is 65 Fahrenheit, and 63 for Arkhangelsk,
Could you handle these winters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon
^^ -40's, you just put up with 1 month in which temperatures may hit 73 degrees.
Also, Saint Petersburg does have 'warm' weather by your standards does it not? But yeah its summers are not as 'warm' as Novosibirsk or Yekaterinburg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg
Lol Norilsk is a horrible city, the worst in Russia as far as pollution goes. My gf's aunt and uncle live there because the pay is excellent; the downside is you have to live in a very ugly, very polluted, very cold place, so most Russians would rather be poor and live elsewhere. Arkhangelsk is cool because of the Goldeneye factor.
St. Petersburg is really not that warm, at least from what I've seen when I've skimmed the historical weather data in the past. Most days are in the 60s and drizzly. That's fine with me. Anything above the mid-70s seems quite rare, and since it's a decent city where air conditioning is available, those few hot days would be tolerable. While Vorkuta and Dudinka are nice and cold, they're also tiny, in the middle of nowhere, and physically unattractive.