Top secret Stalin-era aircraft went down with 2 million roubles on board.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
Hundreds - including dozens of children - evacuated safely as fires destroy and threaten homes.
The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.