A favourite for glamorous pictures by Instragram fans yet visitors are warned to take extreme care.
Map of shame: Greenpeace highlights junk and debris in dozens of sites across the 'pristine' environment.
One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.
Instagrammers still find a way - driving over fields of grass, wild cannabis and nettles to reach turquoise waters despite ‘dangers to health’.
Toxic fuel from 21,000 ton leak reaches pristine lake, bypassing floating booms, as rivers of diesel pollution cover-up is exposed.
Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one.
As much as two billion tonnes can be extracted from open-cast site over the next 167 years with hopes it can transform rural region.
New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.