'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.
The 152-inmate prison will be in Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.
Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.
Countless political prisoners perished here cut off from the world - but today Kolyma finally is getting connected.
Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.
Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.
Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.
Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.