Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.

Hundreds - including dozens of children - evacuated safely as fires destroy and threaten homes.

With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.

The tragedy was at an industrial waste plant near the oil rich Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk.

Distressing images from infernos that left 645 people without homes, and dozens injured.

Brown coal in disused Soviet deposit burning at a temperature as high as 600C.

Blaze and gas explosion near Tyumen kills five children aged under nine years of age.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

Say that again? The Arctic on fire?

Pro-Kremlin eco-groups echo Greenpeace concerns by highlighting burning of forests which do not appear in government reports.