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Kolyma: no barbed wire in sight

The Kingdom of Cold: 14 reasons to choose majestic Yakutia for your next holiday

Forget worn-out tourist destinations. Come to magnificent Lake Baikal, and meet its Tsarina!

Kolyma: no barbed wire in sight

The Kingdom of Cold: 14 reasons to choose majestic Yakutia for your next holiday

Forget worn-out tourist destinations. Come to magnificent Lake Baikal, and meet its Tsarina!

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Russia’s coldest city suffocates under a thick blanket of smog from September wildfires
Residents of Yakutsk struggle to breathe as toxic air causes head, eye and throat aches.
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Giant sailing ship encounters no ice as it attempts the Northern Sea Route

Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

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A large new ‘hole’ appears in Gydan tundra, following record-warm Arctic summer

200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

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Features

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic
Rusting Ilyushin Il-14P with tail number СССР-61755 is located 61 years after his famous speech to the United Nations.
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Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

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First pictures & video of soft tissues preserved on a newly-discovered mammoth shared by scientists

Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.

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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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