One of the great sights for early travellers across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway after its opening in 1899.
One of the first stone buildings in Novosibirsk, the cathedral stands at the very beginning of its main street, Krasniy Prospect.
Built in the neo-Byzantine style with a gilded dome, it is named after one of the giants of Russian medieval history, but was also a monument to Tsar Alexander III, who initiated construction of the railway and the establishment of a station at Novonikolayevsk, as the city was then known, and donated the land and the money for the building.
The distance between capital city Moscow and key Siberian cities could shrink in plan envisaged by the Kremlin leader.
Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.
Now The Siberian Times is seeking to find descendants of British mariner Captain Joseph Wiggin.
A preliminary criminal probe has been opened in Moscow amid allegations that the boy Yegor Shatabalov- now aged ten- was adopted under false pretences.
Russian president calls for Asian money to back the transport revolution in Siberia.
New route connecting (almost) to diamond capital Yakutsk faces funding and contractor crisis causing delay.
Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.