Four times weekly service from Moscow-Chita-Moscow started on 27 October.
It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.
These remarkable pictures show how young Siberian scientist Irina Mukhamedshina, 22, has trained a fox to be as obedient as a dog.
The terrified cow ran from a field in Lesogorsk after the amorous bull started harassing it, said witnesses.
Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.
If they can't be bothered to clean up their garbage, they've got to pay.
Location still a mystery for aching president's away-from-it-all hike.
No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.