Rail link will connect remote region to Krasnoyarsk region.
The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.
A win would offer a boost to Siberia's international profile as a winter sports haven, says president.
230 wildfires rage in Russia’s coldest republic of Yakutia, with state of emergency declared in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions.
With Russia on Covid-19 lockdown, 77 houses were burned down in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions.
At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.
Rescue teams rush to help survivors among 22 passengers in Arctic.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Extreme weather phenomena along with wildfires and flooding are the future 'due to global climate change’.