Ten fishermen were plucked to safety after their vessel - Chance-101 - sank 31 miles east of  Svetlaya village, in Primorye region in the Russian Far East.

Ten fishermen stayed alive in their life raft by casting off the 'dead bodies' of eight crew mates who froze to death in raging seas.

Not only did they pull the hefty 600-kilogram pregnant cow out of an ice hole, but they massaged her frozen limbs back to life.

Hopes fade of finding 13 people, six weeks after Tyva Avia aircraft went missing in remote and mountainous region.

Bird flies 500 km off course and tries to make its winter home at impossibly cold lake mountain before firefighters come to the rescue.

Five belugas were stranded on the same beach by the Sea of Okhotsk within less than a week.

Alexey Paramonov, 36, stayed with the whales until tide returned, keeping them safe and hydrated.

Journey 'in search of my father', as joint Russian-American expedition sets out to bring home crashed wartime Douglas C-47 from tundra.

Yana Tamocheva became lost while picking berries with her mother in Krasnoyarsk region.

Residents marooned on rooftops after snow melt and heavy rain causes Karasul River to burst its banks.