It is a medical fact that children are healthier if they daily run out into the snow in their swimming costumes - and pour a bucket of cold water over their heads.

Oleg Rezanov says he was in ‘trance’ and unable to breathe but walked away - shaking - in -32C Yakutsk cold.

Winter studies for pupils in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold stop only when air temperature drops below -56C.

Drone footage shows army of surfers paddling a chunk of ice in Ussuri Bay.

Vladimir Putin is on a visit to Siberia, but locals question why he is ‘hidden from view’.

Amazing scenes as Russia’s iciest region of Yakutia plunges to near record lows, and even the thermometer in the world’s coldest village breaks down.

Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.

I hate the cold, yet here I was, in winter, boarding a plane for Siberia. This was no holiday– after all, no one goes to Siberia for a holiday!