What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.
Fewer bears in the Siberian region of Tomsk this year are waking from hibernation and hungrily raiding remote villages and towns scavenging for food.
First cargo train on the final link of Amur-Yakutsk line in historic expansion of Siberia's great railways.
Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.
Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The man who fell out of a train in below minus 40C and ran seven kilometres in the blistering cold says he didn't bother to tell his wife of his amazing ordeal.
No, a mysterious Chinese-style palace thousands of miles from home in Siberia.
New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.