Tomsk region's Siberian Chemical Combine received the uranium on December 3, but the official confirmation came one week later.

Thousands of hectares of land ablaze with no signs of a let-up.

Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches. 

With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.

Fewer bears in the Siberian region of Tomsk this year are waking from hibernation and hungrily raiding remote villages and towns scavenging for food.

The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.

Tomsk is set to get a 'futuristic supermarket' where there are no staff and everything is automated.

Siberian tycoon is behind new $44 million franchise agreement with McDonald's.