Russian number one admits pride when announcers say she hails from the remote oil town of Nyagan.
Oldest torchbearer of any Olympic relay, he had lost his father in the Siege of Leningrad.
Nature makes its own collection of snowballs on the Arctic shore of the Gulf of Ob.
Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.
Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.
Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.
The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.
The 19th century vessel - formerly the Royal Navy's HMS Pandora - sank as Americans raced to be first to North Pole.