New road and rail link over the Nadym River.
The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.
Ancient items of jewellery found by archeologists on Taymyr peninsula are stone labrets which were inserted into the face below the bottom lip.
Russian officials refused to allow the vessel to enter the Northern Sea Route which Greenpeace dubbed 'a thinly veiled attempt to stifle peaceful protest'.
A bowhead whale beached on the remote outpost in the Arctic Ocean, and the news spread fast among the island's bears.
Total of 110,000 tonnes sent to Europe across the new Northern Sea Route.
Three Russian nuclear powered icebreakers are leading a huge gas tanker through the Arctic waters on the roof of Siberia.