The new energy source in the remote settlement of Yailyu is powered by the sun, of which Siberia has plenty - summer and winter.
Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.
Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.
Giant airships seen as ideal way to transport heavy lifting equipment to remote mining locations.
Despite the cold weather, growers in Irkutsk are managing to sell their own fruit developed in greenhouses and pollinated by foreign bees.
The 'capital of Siberia' this week hosts the World Snow Forum 2013 dedicated to improving modern life for people living in the harshest winter conditions.
Two year old Lemon takes the bucket to the well, fills it up from the pump and carries it back home.
Officials in Nepal and India are alleging birds migrating from Siberia are responsible for cases of bird flu in domestic fowl.