The 16-year-old boy will live in the Sidelnikovo village near Omsk. The partially abandoned village is cut off from the rest of the world and experiences winter temperatures as low as - 40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit). The village has no central heating, water supplies, television, telephone or Internet.
The young boy will have to chop logs to warm up the house. He will also have to walk to a Russian school, about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) away from the village.
Before he was sent to Siberia, the teenager was treated by experienced psychiatrists in Germany, but their patience ran out after he attacked his mother.
The boy underwent special training, including psychological, before his trip to Siberia. The teenager is accompanied in the village by a Russian-speaking tutor.
The young offender's stay in Siberia is to cost the German taxpayer 150 euros a day, most of which will be used to pay his tutor's wages. However, this works out three times cheaper than a course of therapy in Germany.
An inspector from the Hesse youth department has recently visited the boy and said the experiment was going well. The now rosy-cheeked young man looks quite healthy, carries water from the well, has prepared an entire stack of wood for the fire, and has even built a small wooden toilet in the allotment.
