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'The shortest Russian street is in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia: 40 metres long, its only got three buildings'
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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.

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

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

Tigress who came out of the woods to seek help can be a pet who escaped owners or was thrown out

Russia’s loneliest woman doesn’t know there is virus pandemic in the world

Admiral Kolchak’s archive has returned to Russia 100 years after his execution

Did extinct woolly mammoths have ‘heaters’ to melt snow in their trunks?

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

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

Gone: endemic Baikal sponge has died completely in several areas of the vast lake

Unmasked: the scale of Arctic junk polluting the pristine environment

Recent forest fires 'destroyed' 2 million hectares - 'an unprecedented catastrophe in Siberia'

The great Siberian Coal Diet

Siberian babushka aged 86 becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

'I once lived in a country where we only had Aeroflot: I didn't like it'

Nanotubes from Siberia 'can massively reduce greenhouse gas emissions'

What happened when a Siberian village gave up alcohol?

Farmers produce strawberries in unlikeliest of regions

We are so proud of you

Team UDI shows Siberia really has got talent

Controversial artist takes sarcastic Olympics exhibit to UK

Unique group for elderly women practising the art of Japanese Aikido is the only one in the world

The ultimate cure for stress, Siberian-style

Siberian star Vladimir Tarasenko was named NHL Rookie of the Month after scoring five goals

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Unusual burial with boy laid to rest with copper cauldron on his head found on the Yamal peninsula
Completely new burial rite in northern Siberia puzzles scientists.
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Fragment of WWII US bomber leased to USSR and crashed over Siberia found in river Yenisei

Divers fetched a small fragment of Boston A-20 bomber from depth of four metres by the city of Krasnoyarsk.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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