Russian Geographic Society

Sixty researchers will spend ten days inside Kek-Tash Cave in the Altai mountains. 

More than 50 servicemen in air drop close to  Russia's drifting ice base Barneo.

Macabre remains of six slaughtered polar bears, 'beheaded with their skins removed', now under criminal investigation.

This witness to the Siberian gold rush might be the only one left in the world.

Map of shame: Greenpeace highlights junk and debris in dozens of sites across the 'pristine' environment.

The language is included in a new digital talking dictionary aimed at preserving some of the world's most endangered languages.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.

Group had made record-breaking 650km drive on frozen river from Norilsk to Dikson, but got into trouble on return before being plucked to safety.