To the outside world, the resort of Sheregesh is as well known for Yeti as skiing or snowboarding.
Here's how people can substitute Siberia after the falls of the rouble.
'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.
When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.
Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.
Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.