Hundreds of volunteers joined police and turned every stone to find scared and frostbitten Yana.

Only a handful of such cubs worldwide have been successfully nurtured in captivity.

Sardana Avksentyeva, 51, is known across the world as The Iron Lady of Siberia.

The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.

Fur or other natural fabric garments protect Oymyakon cattle from getting frostbitten at -50C.

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.