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'If you emptied Lake Baikal, it would take every river in the world flowing into it a year to fill.'
Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

Josef Stalin

Siberian pensioner IS grandson of Josef Stalin, DNA test reveals

Yury Davydov, 67, gets proof of his roots after years of waiting: his grandmother was Stalin's 14 year old lover.

Josef Stalin returns to Novosibirsk to outrage of many locals
The city hall nods to Stalinists' demand to erect a statue by May 9, the Russian V-Day.
A permanent exile in Siberia for Stalin, the man who sent millions here?

Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.

Stalin's bust removed by a truck after statue branded blasphemous and 'illegal'

Bronze statue had been erected last month in Surgut by local people, but was seen as offensive by descendants of political detainees sent to Siberia.

Immortal Regiment marches across Russia as families honour war heroes
Emotional ceremonies mark the 74th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, known as the Great Patriot War.
Monument to Stalin’s folly: relics of the Railroad of Death where ‘300,000 prisoners perished’

Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.

Daughter honours her pilot father, killed after safely crash landing US plane in Arctic

Avelina Antsiferova fulfilled her life's dream when she sat in cockpit of wartime Douglas C-47, 69 years after kissing her papa goodbye for last time.

One of the world's greatest natural wonderlands in Russia's Land of Fire and Ice

Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears! 

Fox gets the fisherman to serve her dinner

Brazen animal expects anglers to feed her.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

We say

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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