Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.
Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.
The horrific shooting of boxer Ivan Klimov, 24, is dramatically caught on camera outside the Angar nightclub in Omsk.
Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.
Call to locals and tourists to aid experts counter the green gunge 'polluting' world's deepest lake.
The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.