For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.

Geologist who built ramshackle hut 100 metres from Agafya Lykova passes away and is buried near the last place he called home.

Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.

The distance between capital city Moscow and key Siberian cities could shrink in plan envisaged by the Kremlin leader.

The man who fell out of a train in below minus 40C and ran seven kilometres in the blistering cold says he didn't bother to tell his wife of his amazing ordeal.

Aged 71, she shuns civilisation and accepts a helicopter ride back to her home in remote Siberia, without a gun to protect her from bears.

Siberia's colossal resource potential is a great competitive advantage that needs to be skilfully deployed.