Toxic gas kills workers at vegetable warehouse in Krasnoyarsk.
Population told there is a 'need' to get back into the garden or field and pull together to overcome economic crisis.
With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.
Hermit Agafya Lykova to be sent urgent supplies this week to help her get through winter.
The Yamal peninsula has the world's richest gas reserves, and soon it will grow juicy tomatoes as well.
Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.
Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.
72 year old Agafya Lykova begged for help saying she was short of food.