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'Since 1902 there was a daily 'butter' train, leaving Novosibirsk to Riga, Latvia, with 25 carriages, each loaded with 7 000 kg of butter'

The chronicles of Novosibirsk

Ten polar bears - six adults and four cubs - besiege a stalled rubbish truck in Russian Arctic

Fellow driver tries to scare the predators away as they climb inside the truck to feast on scraps.

New beluga family saved as rescuers call for creating whale emergency centres in Russian Far East

Hero inspector saves two adult beluga whales and one beluga calf stranded on the beach

Polar bear mother brings her cubs into the Arctic town of Pevek in Chukotka

Criminal who tops Interpol’s wanted list for crimes against women is ‘hiding in Siberia’

Retiree survives hand-to-paw fight with a brown bear in the outskirts of the city

Turtles lived with dinosaurs above the Arctic Circle, say scientists

Scientists dissect 42,000 year old extinct male foal preserved in permafrost for cloning bid - video

Unique in palaeontology: Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal

UPDATED: Arctic river turns red again - two years after ‘pollution problem' supposedly fixed

Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

Unique experiment as endangered ‘young tiger couple’ to be returned into the wild

Putin vows not to 'trade' Kuril Islands, and puts accent on economic development

Siberia to get Russia's largest indoor waterpark

First in Russia for Yakutia Airlines as it uses new environmentally friendly Boeing technology

Team UDI through to semi-final of Britain's Got Talent

Director of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre fired in religious backlash

Court throws out claims Novosibirsk opera offended Orthodox believers

Chocks away! Siberia’s unusual airborne world record attempt

Foreign visitor to Siberia takes part in coldest ever Ice Bucket Challenge

Born in royal capital St Petersburg under the last tsar, Alexander Kaptarenko dies aged 102

No fun on Siberia's pistes? Check out this film!

Siberia warmed up by New York, say US scientists

No winter can break our spirit - or we are not Siberians!

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Dead giant octopuses washed ashore south from Kamchtka peninsula on the Kuril Islands

Mass death of hydrobionts and fish at the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Kamchatka as battle of the toxic tide versions continues.

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Red Book saker falcon wounded by poachers gets wings extensions so it can fly again

The prized bird destined to work for a rich man in the United Arab Emirates released back to wild.

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Stunning Bronze Age statuette with a tattooed face and a bone mask found in Siberia

The clay figurine was perched on shoulder of a woman laid to rest about 5,000 years ago.

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Spectacular red sprites - ultrafast bursts of electricity - filmed over the Urals

Amateur astronomer Ilya Yankovsky shared stunning video of the elusive atmospheric phenomena.

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

Rusting Ilyushin Il-14P with tail number СССР-61755 is located 61 years after his famous speech to the United Nations.

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

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

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