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'Please will you get a message to my wife in Paris, to say I bless my son?-reported final words of Admiral Kolchak'

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

Distressing shooting of bear swimming in Lake Baikal by ‘tourists’ prompts check by prosecutors

Two people rescued from Siberia’s highest peak after Robinson helicopter crash landed on Mt Belukha

The newly discovered Yamal woolly mammoth was 3-metres-tall male, aged from 15 to 20 years

Researchers discover ancient ‘weapon-making site’ - beside the skeleton of ‘hunted’ woolly mammoth

First video of ancient ‘bear-like’ wolf preserved in the permafrost for more than 40,000 years

Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia

Concern over raging wildfires as smoke from Siberia crosses Alaska and Canada, reaching New England

Blood coloured rain in Arctic? A biblical plague? The apocalypse? What’s going on?

Mass death of herring on Sakhalin island: what is the cause?

'Let wealthy tourists buy more expensive diamonds for their wives and girlfriends'

Tokyo to London by train? Ambitious new plan links Trans-Siberian to Japan

Putin to personally thaw the ice cream freeze

Authorities decide to fund new UDI school after TV talent show success

Karate world champion murdered in case that has shocked city

Dream still alive for Siberian dance group in Britain's Got Talent

Rising actor found dead amid conflicting reports over what happened

Schoolgirl sets off on 112km expedition to ski to the geographical North Pole

First-ever underwater ice hockey matches held in Siberia

Siberian scientists tell women the best moment to conceive - in a message flashed to their phones

Siberia 'wins' the world record for bikini ski-ing

How do men impress women in the planet's coldest city? Easy - with the coolest dance in the world

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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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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.

Voice of Siberia

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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