Free lunch: Locals brought buckets to collect the surprise bounty of fish on beaches on the Tatar Strait.
Yakutia in a white blanket as temperatures dip to minus 6C as winter 'comes too soon'.
The Russian president spoke after flying over devastated settlements, and fields were crops have been destroyed.
Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Damage from wave of floods already labelled 'catastrophic' with worse to come as Russian president Vladimir Putin demands: 'Put people first'.
Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk suffering smoke pollution and infernos rage in forests after hot, dry weather.
Elsewhere in Primorsky region 94,000 people are still without electricity, 18,000 are without heating.