How people use the extreme cold to 'freeze dry' clothes. 

Ambitious new 1billion rouble venture could see advent of ‘gambling tourism’ in Russia as visitors fly in to Altai resort.

Startling new details emerge of the most mysterious of Siberia's newly created giant permafrost holes.

Former spies and military operatives write handbook for tourists and hunters, using techniques learned during Soviet era.

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

Call to locals and tourists to aid experts counter the green gunge 'polluting' world's deepest lake.

Final message of hero pilot found scrawled in Douglas C-47 aircraft he crash landed with no loss of life in 1947.

Expert says deadly gas released from melting permafrost region will lead to 'awful' consequences for global warming.

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.