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'If you emptied Lake Baikal, it would take every river in the world flowing into it a year to fill.'

Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

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These days Mikhail blends into the crisp snow like any other Siberian peasant farmer

He ekes out a living in the remote village of Dubinka, population 15.

Grave of medieval 'infant prince' found in Arctic, one of 9 newly-discovered burials of 'children'

Young boy was laid to rest all alone with two iron knives, his feet trampling on reindeer bones, wearing elaborate headdress decorated with iron rings.

Examples of letters and drawings secretly passed to relatives from prisoners in Soviet labour camps gone on display in Moscow.

Boy, 4, survived alone in woods rife with bears and wolves for four and a half days

Dima ate grass and drank from puddles to survive: he is too traumatised to speak and is covered with ticks and mosquito bites.

Admire the stunning Siberian collection of fashion designer Avgustina Filippova

Her unique style reflects her love affair with her Yakutian motherland.

Travelling on the Trans-Siberian in style: wi-fi, gyms, libraries, restaurant carriages, children's playrooms - even arrange for your own carriage to be attached to the train

Happy ending for black bear cub craving human contact

Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.

Marooned at minus 50C: Inspiring account of how Natalya and her husband cheated death

Kissing and hugging to survive, hallucinations, fearing their 4 children would be orphans, giving up, cuddling in the Arctic snow to die...then a miracle.