Here are some seasonal pictures as western Siberia gets its debut whiteout of the autumn.
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.
Confused plants bloom in Sayano-Shushenskiy reserve in Central Siberia, strawberry ripen in the Far East of Russia.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Residents of Krasnoyark take to boats to go to work, while an unusual July snowstorm hits Yakutia.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
Drifts have reached one metre in height with schools closed, cars abandoned and even a military tank pulling out stranded drivers.
Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.
Yakutia in a white blanket as temperatures dip to minus 6C as winter 'comes too soon'.