The 152-inmate prison will be in Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.
Vapour trail casts ghostly spectre above Altai just minutes after rocket carrying satellite blasts off into space.
Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth of new hole in river.
'We possess a rock from the time of genesis,' announces expert.
Moscow's top diplomat stresses importance of the country's Asian face.
Construction has begun on a Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Novosibirsk with its opening planned for 2014.
Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.