Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.
Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.
Oldest torchbearer of any Olympic relay, he had lost his father in the Siege of Leningrad.
Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame.