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'Larger than Belgium and a mile deep, lake Baikal holds a fifth of the earth's fresh water'
W.Bruce Lincoln

Endangered Amur tiger killed by poachers in the Far East of Russia

One of world’s largest and rarest big cats was reintroduced to nature just over a year ago.

Russia’s coldest city suffocates under a thick blanket of smog from September wildfires

Giant sailing ship encounters no ice as it attempts the Northern Sea Route

Five year old girls escape from kindergarten and walk home in bitter -45C cold to ‘give mothers a surprise’

11 carriages of explosives, a giant An-124 and four Il-76s - Operation Move a Mountain begins

Tiger king Tikhon who sought human help wants to return to the wild after having dental treatment

Porsche are revving up their sales across Siberia

A mammoth Sotheby's sale of Siberian ... mammoth bones

Vladimir Putin raps government for failing to issue a blueprint for developing Siberia and Far East

Denmark sails to challenge Russian claims to the North Pole's oil and gas riches

SOS made from birch trees saves family from ravaging fires

Venison for lunch? China woos Siberian tigers to the Changbai Mountains

Siberians beaten by Iberians as first to settle in America

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

Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.

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Arctic fires worsen and threaten world famous park set up to recreate flora of woolly mammoth era

Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.

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

Breathtaking island complex close to Mongolian border rumoured to have been built for tragic Chinese princess.

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

Extreme weather phenomena along with wildfires and flooding are the future 'due to global climate change’.

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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.

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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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