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'The few descriptions of Irkutsk had spoken of it as the Paris of Siberia'

Mrs John Clarence Lee, 1914

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

Russian and foreign ecologists beg not to interact with beluga whales released from the ‘Whale Jail’

Poacher faces up to four years in jail for killing a rare Amur tigress

Bear cubs filmed body surfing and splashing in waves of the Sea of Okhotsk

Turtles lived with dinosaurs above the Arctic Circle, say scientists

Scientists dissect 42,000 year old extinct male foal preserved in permafrost for cloning bid - video

Unique in palaeontology: Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal

UPDATED: Arctic river turns red again - two years after ‘pollution problem' supposedly fixed

Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

Unique experiment as endangered ‘young tiger couple’ to be returned into the wild

Putin vows not to 'trade' Kuril Islands, and puts accent on economic development

Siberia to get Russia's largest indoor waterpark

First in Russia for Yakutia Airlines as it uses new environmentally friendly Boeing technology

Team UDI through to semi-final of Britain's Got Talent

Director of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre fired in religious backlash

Court throws out claims Novosibirsk opera offended Orthodox believers

Chocks away! Siberia’s unusual airborne world record attempt

Foreign visitor to Siberia takes part in coldest ever Ice Bucket Challenge

Born in royal capital St Petersburg under the last tsar, Alexander Kaptarenko dies aged 102

No fun on Siberia's pistes? Check out this film!

Siberia warmed up by New York, say US scientists

No winter can break our spirit - or we are not Siberians!

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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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