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'Baikal is starting to attract pioneering tourists looking for an extreme wilderness experience'

Mike Carter, The Observer

Wonder girl Karina Chikitova, 11, wins place at world’s northernmost professional ballet school

Karina became the symbol of resilience and hope when - aged only 4 - she survived 12 days in taiga of Yakutia.

Permafrost is ablaze with hundreds of wildfires in world’s coldest region

Unique 2,000-year-old statuette of dancing man, likely made in Northern India, dug up in Siberia

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic

Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

First pictures & video of soft tissues preserved on a newly-discovered mammoth shared by scientists

5,000 year old battle between mountain sheep comes back to life in new rock art discovery

Meet a lifelike 1700 year old Hun warrior with his bow and ‘whistling arrows’

Mountainside gallery where all civilisations added their own art from Bronze Age to medieval times

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

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

Buryatia: where thawing permafrost turns to steppe before our eyes

Luscious strawberries now produced in Siberia during winter

Billionaire warns financial crisis is only going to get worse across Russia

Traveler’s Coffee founder positive about future despite economic downturn

Perhaps the most revealing graffiti art in the world?

Inspirational women who show the beauty of Siberia

Below minus 40C? Here's how you stay fashionable out in the street

Siberian ice chills the 'world's most expensive cocktail' costing $50,000

Raising Krasnoyarsk's famous Royev Ruchey Zoo to a new level

US scientists 'prove' what Siberian grannies have known for generations about magical Arctic herb

Maria Sharapova admits Siberia gives her 'goosebumps'

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

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First expedition to depths of Lake Cheko close to epicentre of Tunguska event to start in February

Geophysicists and hydrobiologists will dive below 30 metres in what some scientists believe is the impact crater.

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Red Book’s Steller Sea lion rescued from a plastic death trap in Russian Far East

The endangered mammal got tied up to the Nevelsk breakwater like a chained dog.

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World’s coldest marathon at blistering minus 53C is complete in Yakutia

Local runner Vasily Lukin won the full distance in 3 hours, 22 minutes.

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Treasure trove of Palaeolithic jewellery, made at least 45,000 years ago, found in the Denisova Cav

Archeologists discovered a new stone bracelet, two sharp pins, a marble ring and fox tooth pendants.

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Photographer captures eerie graveyard of North Korean schooners scattered along the Russian coast

Ghost flotilla is the only memorial to dozens of North Korean squid poachers who never returned to their home waters.

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Work underway to create the world’s first Arctic station powered by hydrogen and renewables

The $27-million Snezhinka (Snowflake) is seen as a future international science hub for biotech, robotic and AI-driven projects.

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