54 reported missing after seven rescued in high seas with strong winds.
The navigator, who served in the Navy of Peter the Great, gave his name to the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Bridge.
Eye-catching numbers have emerged on the expected trade boom from the Arctic route to Europe for Chinese business.
A giant furry octopus? Remains of a woolly mammoth? An unknown primeval creature from the deep?
Norman Surplus, 49, is refusing to give up, 15 months after being denied access to Russian airspace to complete is round the world adventure.
Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection.
A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.
New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.
The remarkable annual Beringia dog sled race will go through some of the planet's remotest and most challenging territory in Kamchatka.