A modern Western-style hostel popular with travellers on a budget, including those seeking a night or two off the Trans-Siberian train. 

Seen as great value for money with good security. Run by entrepreneurs Marina Nikiforova and Ksenia Chernikova, who say on their excellent website: ‘Attention backpackers and penny savers! Good news from Siberia. Recent university grads launched the first Western-type hostel in Novosibirsk. 

'The city is notorious for lack of affordable decent accommodations. Dostoevsky Hostel: great location, English-speaking team and everything you need during your budget travel’. 

We take a trip to Mount Mamai in the Republic of Buryatia, well-known to local snow fanatics, but still a secret to many outsiders.

Faced with loans and unpaid alimony for daughter, Vyacheslav took flight and now blogs about his escape from financial problems.

Board a train in London and travel across Siberia all the way to Tokyo?

The London-Beijing flight with 270 passengers and 16 crew landed in Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, at 10.41 local time on Wednesday.

Art student draws unique glimpse of the 9,258 kilometre Trans-Siberian Railway.

Visitors ‘risking their lives’ to witness spectacular formation of second cone on Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka.

Tourist chiefs in Thailand have stressed the importance to them of visitors from the eastern regions of Russia.