Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists. 

Low temperatures are a time for fun in -50C and below - riding bikes, ice swimming or eating frozen noodles.

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

In the most extreme conditions, the unimaginable can happen. 

It may be -40C outside but that did not put off fearless Irish strongman from pouring water over his head.

The unique discovery was three or four years old when it died at least 20,000 years ago.

The 7,000  year old volcano is the highest mountain in Russia outside the Caucases. 

Wild animal uses eye contact to 'flatter' biologist Alexander Yakovlev - hoping for a tasty breakfast - at dawn on the shores of the freezing Gulf of Ob.