Vitaly Denisyuk, 37, was first to realise help was needed by frightened people at upstairs windows.
Teenage woolly rhino could have been hunted by predators into water, where it drowned
Manicures, massages, warm milk and 24/7 care to raise polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them
Five year old girl rescued from a sewage well after eight hours at -20C on the island of Sakhalin
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
Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.
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.
This spike of bear cannibalism is reported at the South-Kamchatka nature reserve in Kamchatka.
Mass death of hydrobionts and fish at the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Kamchatka as battle of the toxic tide versions continues.