The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

A quarter of all Russian forests, 89% of stocks in Sakha Republic, could be left to burn, even though they are essential to fight global warming.

Afanasiy Polyatinskiy spent ten days taking letters and parcels to remote villages, carrying a gun because of threat of brown bear attacks.

'I cry and say thank you to the Russians that they welcomed us so warmly'.

Kerechene was laboratory-made in South Korea by scientists who also want to genetically engineer the return of the woolly mammoth.

Locals do not believe official claims that the precious metals  have been found - and they’re aiming to get rich.

Examination of ancient cave lion cub offers prospect of 'oldest-ever breast milk'.

Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.