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'Since 1902 there was a daily 'butter' train, leaving Novosibirsk to Riga, Latvia, with 25 carriages, each loaded with 7 000 kg of butter'

The chronicles of Novosibirsk

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.

Unusual burial with boy laid to rest with copper cauldron on his head found on the Yamal peninsula

Fragment of WWII US bomber leased to USSR and crashed over Siberia found in river Yenisei

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

60,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘Swiss Army Knife’ found in Siberian cave

Schoolgirl finds the world’s oldest lemming preserved in permafrost and dating back 41,000 years

Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

2019 to be ‘worst-ever year’ for wildfires in Siberia and ‘only rain can now extinguish flames’

Massive wildlife tragedy as bears and foxes flee taiga, while smaller animals suffocate in smoke

Fire and flood apocalypse with wildfires raging and dire threat to Baikal, world’s deepest lake

Iconic mammoth hotel planned for Lake Baikal with soaring-100 metre high tusks

Sparkling Far East of Russia - Indian KGK to invest $50 million into a diamond-cutting factory

Climate change offers chance of major economic boost in Arctic for Russia, says Putin

Players tee off with red balls for golf on the world's deepest lake

Tragedy as runner dies from 'cardiac arrest' during Baikal ice marathon

Woman pulls two trams full of passengers weighing 36 tons - in minus 20 cold

Row as schoolchildren aged 7 to 16 taught to pole dance

DiCaprio formally invited to visit Siberia after winning 'people's Oscar' from Yakutians

DiCaprio warns of climate change threat as he accepts 'Siberian Oscar'

The Siberian ice bucket challenge: Tomsk beats New York

How Siberia's famous swamp could become the next big winter tourist draw

Splash! Skier plunges into -15C Lake Baikal after hitting thin ice

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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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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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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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