Helped by a ladder, an axe and a chainsaw.

The weirdest winter for decades takes a cold turn but milder weather is on the way again.

Mother goes in search of Bogdan when she wakes at 6am, and finds he has wandered out of house in middle of night into fierce frost.

Topsy-turvy summer swings from Saudi-heat to freezer in Arctic north of Russia’s largest region of Yakutia.

Despite warnings of severe temperatures, hundreds of thousands of Russians take ice dips in an annual ritual marking Christ’s baptism in the River Jordan.

Growing number of brave Siberians strip off for the winter, with debate raging about the benefits of taking to the snow and ice naked.

Our reporter completes Day 4 of Baikal skating tour safe and sound.

It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).

Private zoo in Irkutsk engulfed by flames and smoke despite minus 35C cold.

Elephants Magda and Jenny are poised to return to the circus ring after being saved from the intense Siberian cold - by vodka.