Elephants Magda and Jenny are poised to return to the circus ring after being saved from the intense Siberian cold - by vodka.
Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.
The only Russian victim was from Irkutsk, say reports.
Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula.
Award-winning director and screenwriter Janusz Zaorski says members of his own family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.
Maru was sent back to the kennels where she was born on Trans-Siberian railway by 'allergic' owner, but escaped the train.
You've already run the great marathons in Berlin, London or New York, tried Paris, Amsterdam or Hololulu? Have a look at Omsk, Western Siberia.
Russian president discovers 'proof' that fabled creature exists while on short vacation in Kemerovo region.