The successful bid was at one of Siberia's most popular winter sports resorts - Sheregesh.
Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.
Leonid Kulesh's dizzying achievement wins world acclaim - even if he is not appreciated by local police.
100-year-old woman among the hundreds who party the night away on the banks of a Yakutia river as temperatures fall to -43C.
It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.
Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.
The documents are expected to help Japan understand the fate of thousands of PoWs in Siberia after the end of the Second World War.
Tyva republic registers Saudi-like heat but is also hit by wildfires.
Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.