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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

Volcano warning for city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky amid ‘very likely’ eruption

City of 180,000 is just 26 km from ‘waking’ Avachinsky on Pacific’s ring of fire.

Flares used to scare away 63 polar bears besieging a remote Russian village

T-34 polar bear video explained: scientists marked the predator in 'safe paint'

Plans for new transport route unveiled to link Pacific with Atlantic

Norilsk breaks records for Arctic heat in a new sign of changing weather patterns

Mummified monk is ‘not dead’ and in rare meditative state, says expert

Pallas's cats to get their own 'palace' in Siberian mountains

Like ducks to water in the snow - keeping kids healthy Siberian style

Moving to Siberia is a 'no brainer', says top Scottish striker signed by FC Tom

'The next stop on the Trans-Siberian railway... was designed in London'

Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia

Siberia 'wins' the world record for bikini ski-ing

First pictures from inside the 'crater at the end of the world'

Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

Man lives after bear breaks his spine and keeps him as food inside den

Siberian princess goes global 2,500 years after her death

Siberian trainee lawyer voted 'Miss Longest Legs' in Russian beauty contest

Skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, 15, steals the Olympic show in Sochi

Perfectly-preserved ancient foal is shown to the world for the first time

Ready for a cold bath, Siberian-style?

Russia gives away one hectare of farmland and forest to its citizens

Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

Siberia's wildfires seen from 1 million miles away: even the tundra is burning

A first new-style power plant is up and running in the Altai Republic: Is this the future?

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Giant sauropods lived in polar conditions in world’s coldest region, say scientists

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.

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Russian birch trees are ‘climbing mountains’ due to climate change

Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.

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Wildlife sat-nav goes awry as White Stork and Flamingo defy nature and fly to Siberia in winter

Frantic efforts to save the wrong-turn birds from harsh cold.

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Northern reindeer that roamed Taymyr peninsula are at the brink of extinction

Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

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2,300 year old wooden house is rebuilt, and it fits together down to the last centimetre

Timber from potentate’s log cabin was superbly persevered in permafrost, allowing us to see how ancient man lived.

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Siberian puppy frozen in permafrost for 14,300 years gives scientists major RNA breakthrough

Never before has RNA - Ribonucleic acid - sequencing been carried out from so far back in time.

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