A future international tourist bonanza is being brewed on the historic Great Tea Road.
Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.
Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.
Three cities east of the Urals are in the top ten for a new survey of national contentment.
Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why? The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day.
Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.
Getting to Siberia for foreigners has never been easier.