Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.
Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.
Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.
Experts say a crack has appeared in the precarious granite giant: but if it falls into the lake, it will unleash ancient legends which might change the world.
Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.
Symptoms suspected in seven cows at farm in Zabaikalsky region.
Billionaire tycoon aims to use Siberia’s hydropower to fuel legion of data centres cheaper than anywhere else in Russia.
Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.
Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches.
Extreme swimmers take the plunge to support competitors forced to perform in South Korea without the Russian flag.