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'Lavrentiev Prospect, Akademgorodok was in the Guinness Book of Records as the 'world's most scientific street''

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.

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

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

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

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

More than 400 sealed ‘craters’ are ticking time bombs from a total 7000+ Arctic permafrost mounds

World’s largest ‘explosion’ could have been caused by iron asteroid entering and leaving atmosphere

Video shows frightened leopard cub fleeing raging wildfires in eastern Russia

Race to unravel mystery of 1908 Tunguska catastrophe - the world’s biggest explosion

Tragic moment a rare Amur tiger cub is fatally hit by a bus in Russian Far East

Cooking secrets of the Neolithic era revealed in groundbreaking scientific tests

56 hungry polar bear besiege village in Chukotka

Splashing in the icy Pacific as if it was Thailand - but it’s a great ‘cure for cellulite’

Yoga at -41C on the famous Baikal-Amur Mainline railway

Fan killed in fight between rival football club fans in Novosibirsk

Record pink rough diamond found by Alrosa subsidiary in Siberia 

Russia offers a bridge across history to connect Tokyo to the Trans-Siberian railway 

Business mission in Kuril Islands signals a new era for Russia and Japan

Burning angel gets second degree burns to win $350 prize at snow festival

Don't mess with Siberia's strongest woman as she deals with crazy driver

'The next stop on the Trans-Siberian railway... was designed in London'

Dali and Picasso get warm welcome in Mongolia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with annual swimsuit skiing day

New Miss Russia, 18, 'never posed as a beauty' when she grew up

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Features

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

Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.

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Features

Arctic fires worsen and threaten world famous park set up to recreate flora of woolly mammoth era

Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.

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Mysterious mountain palace, one of the wonders of Siberia, was built in 777 AD

Breathtaking island complex close to Mongolian border rumoured to have been built for tragic Chinese princess.

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Hurricane force winds destroy homes: welcome to new normal for Siberia, say scientists

Extreme weather phenomena along with wildfires and flooding are the future 'due to global climate change’.

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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.

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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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