Yetis have been 'sighted' recently in three different remote areas in Kemerovo region, according to local reports.

Photographers win praise for work which had them in trouble with the Communist Party and KGB.

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.

DNA 'tests' of hair supposedly from a Yeti in a Siberian cave show it comes from an unknown mammal closely related to man, it was claimed last night.

The Douglas A-20 Havoc (DB-7) loaned to the USSR under the World War II Lend-Lease programme.

The German car-maker has picked out Siberia as a key area for growth.

Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.

Alexey has accrued 13 children, 117 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren over his lifetime, and there may be more on the way!