Businessman Yevgeny Vlasov, 53, fell through ice hole but in last words shouted to son to walk to the family’s village store.
There's no better place to grow than in the towns like my historic Tara, founded in 1594, without traffic jams and supermarkets, but with winter fun and fresh air.
On 10 February, eight travellers set out on a two month odyssey covering 4,000 km through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.
Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.
Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.
Journalists test Chinese Geely on epic 10,000km journey from Belarus and find it performs well in the harsh climate - even if they did have to wear ski clothes.
Spectacular falling meteorite fragments struck the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning exploding in the atmosphere and crashing to the ground.
Sightings of 'primeval monsters' in Siberia's Lake Labynkyr were made before 'Nessie' was spotted in Scotland.