Hollywood celebrity plans a trip with sons to discover what lies between Moscow and Vladivostok.
The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.
72 year old Agafya Lykova begged for help saying she was short of food.
Aged 71, she shuns civilisation and accepts a helicopter ride back to her home in remote Siberia, without a gun to protect her from bears.
Inaugural trek through 10,000 year old Vasyugan Mire paves way for visitors to savour the unique flora and fauna.
As soon as a Honda fell through the ice, locals were preparing to use an age-old system to pull it out.
Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.
It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.