Hermit Agafya Lykova to be sent urgent supplies this week to help her get through winter.

A Moscow scientist is calling for a new scientific expedition to solve the mystery of a huge 'monster'. 

Giant ramparts guarded Altai Mountains against attack from the north, says leading archeologist Professor Andrey Borodovsky.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Brazen animal expects anglers to feed her.

Otto Lagerfeld held in bleak camp in Verkhoyansk for four years of First World War, show contemporary documents.

When Vadim Kolpakov went on an expedition to the north of Irkutsk region, he had no inkling of the sensational discovery he was about to make.

Meet Syoma, the fearless, who plays cat and mouse....with a fox. 

The president warns that the US and EU want to defang the Russian bear.

Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.