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'Lake Baikal is contains more water than the five US great lakes combined'

Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

Prehistoric people developed a technique for making a playdough-like material from mammoth ivory

The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.

Cows in the world’s coldest inhabited place have to wear mouton bras for outdoor walks

Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video

Better economic and tourist links with China are on the way, with significant benefits for Siberia

Vera's stunning images of polar bears set to feature on children's clothes

First winter season oil shipments over the frozen Arctic heralded a success

Praise won by the pristine Russian timber used for the ultra-speedy track in London's VeloPark

The ideal Siberian penthouse for a European footballer miles from home?

Scottish manager on just how exactly did he agree to manage a football club in Novosibirsk

Tower of Siberia: can this 302 metre skyscraper save our planet?

Inside a Russian experiment to make life possible on the Moon or Mars

The smoking gun 'proving ancient man killed woolly mammoth 45,000 years ago'

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Stunning photos of Siberia and its people feature in new book

Beyonce's choreographer Danielle Polanco checks out Siberia's twerking sensations

Our exotic birds are winning rave reviews, as they invade and delight the West

Siberian Arctic leads the way in 'revolutionary' Northern Hemisphere warming

Warning to Putin over wildfire 'catastrophe' with claim officials undercount forest infernos

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Celebrity chef launches health crusade as figures show rise in obesity

Is this Russia’s most beautiful police officer?

Lonely dog Volya finds loving home in the West

Call of the wild - the beauty of Jack London Lake in eastern Russia

New signs of Siberia's Nessie? A dark creature in the lake and broken fishing nets

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Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia

Pillars of smoke filmed over the areas hit by last summer’s wildfires despite the current long spell of extremely cold weather.

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Teenage woolly rhino could have been hunted by predators into water, where it drowned

Studies begin on a massive and very well-fed Pleistocene era rhino found in Yakutia with its horn and one tooth.

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Manicures, massages, warm milk and 24/7 care to raise polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Four Russian women share unique experience of becoming mother bears in the first ever attempt to nurture zoo cubs.

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Five year old girl rescued from a sewage well after eight hours at -20C on the island of Sakhalin

Hundreds of volunteers joined police and turned every stone to find scared and frostbitten Yana.

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Six zoo staff play foster parents to polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Only a handful of such cubs worldwide have been successfully nurtured in captivity.

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Russia’s most popular mayor in charge of country’s diamond capital resigns over ‘health issues’

Sardana Avksentyeva, 51, is known across the world as The Iron Lady of Siberia.

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