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.
As temperatures sunk to minus 50C and below, schools and kindergartens were closed for the world's hardiest children.
Here's how people can substitute Siberia after the falls of the rouble.
A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.
How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.
Today it's +32C in Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and locals escape heatwave like true Siberians - by chilling on ice.
In a remote ice cave in Siberia, three legendary white-bearded figures hold an unexpected conclave.