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Fascinating new clues emerge on lost tsarist gold and diamonds worth an untold fortune

Secret KGB documents and a book by ex-FSB colonel kickstart 100 year old search for missing Romanov treasures and valuables.

New gold rush in Siberia?

Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.

What caused the formation of this eerie 'crater lake' in Khakassia?

Tuim Hole first appeared 62 years ago and has sheer 120 metre cliffs reaching down to its deep turquoise waters.

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.

Stalin's secret train trip to Siberia

New details emerge about 1928 odyssey that changed a dictator.

Admiral Kolchak’s archive has returned to Russia 100 years after his execution

A group of Russian billionaires spent over 3 million euro at French auction to buy historic papers of the man who tried - and failed - to halt Bolsheviks.

Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

Baikal gets a clean-up - but is enough being done to stop pollution?

Government announces $1.8 bln package, while volunteers from all over the wolrd collect more than 450 tonnes of trash from the shoreline of the unique lake.