Kotelny island

Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting. 

Move boosts armed forces capability in polar waters. 

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

Shots fired at island campsite to scare away beast which then drops ancient limb preserved in permafrost since prehistoric times.

Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.

Military tests in minus 30C to check performance of equipment and personnel in toughest of conditions.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.