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'The Yenisey is powerful, furious hero who does not know what to do with his strength and youth'

A.P. Chekhov, 1890

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.

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

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

Better economic and tourist links with China are on the way, with significant benefits for Siberia

Vera's stunning images of polar bears set to feature on children's clothes

First winter season oil shipments over the frozen Arctic heralded a success

Praise won by the pristine Russian timber used for the ultra-speedy track in London's VeloPark

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

Tower of Siberia: can this 302 metre skyscraper save our planet?

Inside a Russian experiment to make life possible on the Moon or Mars

The smoking gun 'proving ancient man killed woolly mammoth 45,000 years ago'

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Stunning photos of Siberia and its people feature in new book

Beyonce's choreographer Danielle Polanco checks out Siberia's twerking sensations

Our exotic birds are winning rave reviews, as they invade and delight the West

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

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

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Celebrity chef launches health crusade as figures show rise in obesity

Is this Russia’s most beautiful police officer?

URGENT: how you can help bring back the woolly mammoth Arctic landscape

Siberia's stone idols

US pathologist 'found suspicious marks' on US man who officially died of 'hypothermia' in Siberia

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

Residents of Yakutsk struggle to breathe as toxic air causes head, eye and throat aches.

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

Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

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A large new ‘hole’ appears in Gydan tundra, following record-warm Arctic summer

200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

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Polar bear chased away with flares after wandering close to a secondary school at Chukotka

Bear Patrol in remote village of Ryrkaipiy on high alert as predators gather by a walrus rookery.

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First ever preserved grown up cave bear - even its nose is intact - unearthed on the Arctic island

Separately at least one preserved carcass of a cave bear cub found on the mainland of Yakutia, with scientists hopeful of obtaining its DNA.

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Rare blue-eyed ginger seal pup found by Russian biologists at Sea of Okhotsk rookery

Nicknamed ‘ugly duckling’ for its appearance, the pup will be monitored by scientists to ensure its safety.

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The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies

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