Otto Lagerfeld held in bleak camp in Verkhoyansk for four years of First World War, show contemporary documents.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

The find, as old as Christ, is the latest treasure from the sacred and mysterious site of Ust-Polui in Salekhard, say experts.

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.

Does a spooky event in New England 238 years ago hold the clue to the eerie blackness that descended one week ago in Siberia?

Earth is moving as 'leaking methane gas due to global warming causes surface to bubble' in a new phenomenon.

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.