Most fires will not be extinguished, with major cities polluted by fumes.
Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.
Travel for the first time by train to Russia's diamond capital, the coldest city in the world!
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.
Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.
Skeleton of almost complete beast discovered on banks of Lena River close to Yakutsk.
'Sensational' find of two cubs, the best preserved ever seen in the world, announced today.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.