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

Thousands of people fleeing the Middle East and Africa into Europe should be redirected to Russia, claims economist Fred E Foldvary.

Prisoners left anguished protest note to future generations, revealing how they sacrificed 'blood and bones' and pleading for an end to slavery.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.

When Vadim Kolpakov went on an expedition to the north of Irkutsk region, he had no inkling of the sensational discovery he was about to make.