Unique pictures show prehistoric forensic evidence: spear wounds on the Arctic beast's bone.
Total of 110,000 tonnes sent to Europe across the new Northern Sea Route.
Siberian expedition to find English steamboat 'The Thames' led by pioneering British mariner that sank in 1876.
The Ob was once teeming with sturgeon, but more recently the 'Tsar Fish' has become an endangered species in the mighty river.
Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.
Doctors fought in vain to save Alexander Stakhanov, 35, on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake.
On 1 May, the 'Ob Sea', close to Novosibirsk, was completely clear of ice.
Timber from potentate’s log cabin was superbly persevered in permafrost, allowing us to see how ancient man lived.