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Burning peat and wildfires bring unseasonal smoke apocalypse to Urals and Siberia

Roads blocked, planes diverted due to low visibility, schools shut, people advised to stay home.

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Worries for a lone polar bear cub that walked into the remote Arctic port of Dikson

Dilemma over how to help the two-year-old ‘orphan’, still not old enough to tend for itself.

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Bull geoglyph twice as old as Nazca Lines (Peru), predating Uffington Horse (UK) found in Siberia

Pebble and sandstone bull 3 by 4 metres is the first animal geoglyph discovered in this part of the world.

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Siberian Lady of the Rings - rich bronze age burial reveals stunning set of funeral jewellery

A wealthy woman was laid to rest nearly 3,000 years ago with unique rings, bracelet, temple rings and a massive bronze pendant.

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Whale hunting and magic mushroom people of 2,000-year-old Eurasia’s northernmost art gallery

Scientists rush to preserve unique collection of petroglyphs in remote corner of Chukotka.

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Wildfires in Yakutia 2021
Hidden ram's skull
Great Arctic heat
Norilsk diesel rivers

Warmest
Omsk
32°
D: 32°
N: 17°

Coldest
Salekhard
8°
D: 11°
N: 8°
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Features

Permafrost is ablaze with hundreds of wildfires in world’s coldest region

Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.

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Unique 2,000-year-old statuette of dancing man, likely made in Northern India, dug up in Siberia

Mystery how the bronze dancer, his arms raised in an ecstatic trance, reached modern-day Novosibirsk region.

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Stunning visuals of a black panther playing in the snowy woods of Siberia shared by owner

Luna the panther was rescued from a travelling zoo when its mother refused to feed the cub.

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The Babushka of Baikal, the granny in her 80th year who has popularised the world’s deepest lake

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

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Spectacular footage records the formation of new second cone on highest active volcano in Eurasia

Soul-stirring images of eruption on the Klyuchevskaya Sopka caught by extreme travellers at altitude of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft).

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

We say

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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