White-knuckle driver Roman Rusinov and motor journalist Andrey Leontjev smash the Russian on-ice speed record. 

Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.

Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.

But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

They wear military headgear, raise the flag, carry knives in their mouths, and shoot at a target.

Siberian 'suslik' needs human rescue from passing motorists on Olkhon island in Lake Baikal.

New tourism offices planned across China as government eyes up five-fold increase in visitors crossing the border.

Study of ancient canine graves shows the important place of the animals in lives of prehistoric people.

Power of science brings to life our past from 'unique' skull discovered in a grave northwest of Lake Baikal.

One early visitor: a fireball streaking across the sky and splashing into Lake Baikal.