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'In the winter he skated and Nadya thought him rather too showy with his style of strutting like a chicken'

Robert Service on Lenin's exile in Siberia

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

Mysterious mountain palace, one of the wonders of Siberia, was built in 777 AD

Hurricane force winds destroy homes: welcome to new normal for Siberia, say scientists

Tigress who came out of the woods to seek help can be a pet who escaped owners or was thrown out

Proof of a 2,000 kilometre polar trade route in volcanic glass dating back at least 8,000 years

The Shigir Idol, depicting the ‘ancient spirit world’, originally stood tall beside a paleo-lake

Peek inside the Siberian cave where inter-species love child ‘Denny’ lived 90,000 years ago

Extreme warnings issued that Lake Baikal could 'drain dry like the Aral Sea'

New warnings of shocking pollution threatening Lake Baikal

Special status for swamp that saves the world

Japanese firm unveils major investment on scenic Russian Far East island

Russia and Thailand deepen economic ties and look to future

New report reveals mixed fortunes for timber industry

Is dancing the secret to a long happy life? One man seems to think so...

Cold comfort: How one Siberian is using the freezing weather to better her health

The secrets of Siberia’s frozen snow brides revealed

Stunning photos of Siberia and its people feature in new book

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

Punished for showing real-life Soviet Siberia

Would British princes manage to win this 'Siberian polo'?

The Siberian parents who gave up Jessica Long as a new-born baby salute her heroic achievement

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

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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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The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies

EUR91.22USD75.04GBP103.07Other...

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