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Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.

The successful bid was at one of Siberia's most popular winter sports resorts - Sheregesh.

Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.

It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.

Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.

Freak climate conditions sees an abnormally warm November. 

It's official - Siberia is to stop being one of the only places on earth where you cannot buy a McDonald's hamburger.

100-year-old woman among the hundreds who party the night away on the banks of a Yakutia river as temperatures fall to -43C.