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'What has enabled Russia to rise among the great powers of the world…has been the conquest of Siberia'
W.Bruce Lincoln

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

Northern reindeer that roamed Taymyr peninsula are at the brink of extinction

Crimson treasure of Siberia, the salt lake that turns pink on sunny days

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

Lake Baikal to become a new ocean - but not for 20 million years, say scientists

Grave of medieval 'infant prince' found in Arctic, one of 9 newly-discovered burials of 'children'

Discovered: the Great Wall of Siberia dating to '1st millennium BC'

Wildfires around Lake Baikal are 'close to catastrophic', say WWF

Fears of extinction for West Siberian cranes due to cruel hunting in Iran and Pakistan

Russia hints at including Himalayan bear in Red Book

Traveler’s Coffee founder positive about future despite economic downturn

Come and visit… Luxury hotels in Siberia now cheaper than across Europe

Unique Milan-style indoor street planned for upmarket residential complex

Siberian ice chills the 'world's most expensive cocktail' costing $50,000

Exotic ivory carving from Siberia, giving new life to old legends

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make it look easy, adopting kids from all corners of the world

Siberia - where beauty contests are not infected by political correctness!

They say Siberians have a love of adventure in their blood, as Alexey Kamersanov proves

Pregnancy weight? Postnatal depression? Not for us thank you!

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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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