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'Siberia's navigable rivers are more than long enough to encircle the globe'
W.Bruce Lincoln

Researchers discover ancient ‘weapon-making site’ - beside the skeleton of ‘hunted’ woolly mammoth

Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting. 

Emaciated polar bear rescued from garbage dump in Arctic maybe ‘lost sister’ of orphaned Ursula

Finally! Operation begins to release ‘whale jail’ inmates, announced on Putin’s TV hotline

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

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

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

Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

Three year old miracle girl found alive after 11 days in Siberian taiga - thanks to her puppy

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

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

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

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

Siberian princess goes global 2,500 years after her death

Ready for a cold bath, Siberian-style?

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

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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Features

Race against time and waves as Russian archaeologists rescue Siberia’s remarkable Atlantis

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

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Siberian hermit, 75, who ‘lives in 18th century’ refuses to be moved by Space Age

Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

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Ice tsunami in the extreme north of Russia means summer is finally here

Residents of Dudinka share this impressive - ok, scary! - video of ice breaking on the Yenisei River.

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Features

Ever dreamed of skating the world’s deepest lake?

Our reporter goes through days of sleeping on ice and survives a Baikal earthquake. Baikal Trip Diary, Day 1

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

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake  Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

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Excavating the thick ice under a whole ship at bone-chilling minus 50C?

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

We say

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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