The Ob was once teeming with sturgeon, but more recently the 'Tsar Fish' has become an endangered species in the mighty river.
The world's largest coffeehouse company prepares to open in Novosibirsk.
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.
Preliminary investigations suggest one of the drivers fell asleep before head-on smash.
A girl dies after a bus stop crashes on her in extreme gales.
At least 76 were injured in the serious rail incident on a train from Novosibirsk to Adler.
Vladimir Putin's supporters beaten in Siberian region.
The Denisova Cave in the Altai region has given up another riveting secret to modern science, this time equine, say researchers from Novosibirsk.
Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.