Roads blocked, planes diverted due to low visibility, schools shut, people advised to stay home.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.
A Moscow scientist is calling for a new scientific expedition to solve the mystery of a huge 'monster'.
But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.
Andrey Solovyev keeps a lonely all-winter vigil in Yakutia in search of the legendary Labynkyr Devil.
Pyramid is literally frozen in time, captured on camera by Vladimir Prokofiev.
Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists.
Two young birds saved after taking a seriously wrong turn during migration.