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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

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.

Archeologists find 1,500 years old mummy in Mongolia

Who was the 'phantom girl' in these 110-year-old photographs?

Siberian falcons spared 'massacre' this year in Indian bird 'gulag'

Experiment to grow narcotic-free cannabis in Siberia ends in a puff of smoke

Expectant mothers face unexpected surprise as brown bear checks out a maternity hospital

The seals are the mermaids' dogs, didn't you know?

Getting all shirty about Siberia

The biggest cat in the world

Russia's greatest dog sled race 'Beringia-2013' is won by a local from Kamchatka in record time

Give me a train ticket! A bear on the rampage at remote railway station

Small is beautiful - a unique gift from Siberia

And they're off...on the legendary Beringia Sled Dog Race: only 970km to go!

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News

Sensational discovery of a 250,000 year old milk tooth found inside the Denisova Cave in Siberia
Another tooth aged over 170,000 years, and two fragments of bones found too.
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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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Features

Stunning Bronze Age statuette with a tattooed face and a bone mask found in Siberia

The clay figurine was perched on shoulder of a woman laid to rest about 5,000 years ago.

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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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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.

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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