Trans Siberian trains are on schedule despite rivers breaking their banks and plans to evacuate the gateway of Khabarovsk.
Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.
Scheme would allow epic journeys from London to the Japanese capital with major international crossing between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.
Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.
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.
Possible route could see 400km/hour bullet train pass through heart of Siberia and Altai region with stops in major cities.
The head of Russian railways says he can live with sanctions over Crimea.
Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.