As the winter cold settles in, this is a sight to warm you up (strictly 18+).

Research in some of Russia's remotest regions on 43,000 year old bones may have a very modern application in saving lives of coronary patients.

Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

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

Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.

The two fled on foot in minus 35C rather than stay with the men in remote hut in the taiga in Sakha Republic.

Unveiled: two extinct cave lions  - dug from the permafrost - make their first appearance since Pleistocene times.

Residents of a Urals town noticed the dog standing completely still on a frozen pond for 36 hours.