The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.
Murky underwater videos suggest wreckage of Eira is finally rediscovered off Cape Flora on Franz Josef Land archipelago, where it sank in 1881.
Growing number of brave Siberians strip off for the winter, with debate raging about the benefits of taking to the snow and ice naked.
Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.
The swollen Amur River reached a depth of 910 cm near Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Sunday, with fears it could hit 940cm.
Norman Surplus, 49, is refusing to give up, 15 months after being denied access to Russian airspace to complete is round the world adventure.
The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.
Amazing pictures of Dekabrina, born in minus 62C in the coldest village in the world.
Patient breaks out of hospital wearing only a bed sheet in search of his favourite brew, seemingly oblivious to an outside temperature of minus 16C.