Clocks change for the final time, except in Kemerovo, Kamchatka and Chukotka. Confused?

Environmental experts say levels of contamination were 193 times normal.

Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.

Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.

Siberian city 'beats' the world famous ski resorts of Zermatt and Verbier which postpone their bid to host the winter sports festival.

Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.

On 1 May, the 'Ob Sea', close to Novosibirsk, was completely clear of ice.