Here are some seasonal pictures as western Siberia gets its debut whiteout of the autumn. 

Amazing scenes as Russia’s iciest region of Yakutia plunges to near record lows, and even the thermometer in the world’s coldest village breaks down.

A picture of Anastasia Gruzdeva, 25, in deep winter with frosty eyelashes went viral: now she shows her summer look, covered in mosquitoes.

Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.

No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.

230 wildfires rage in Russia’s coldest republic of Yakutia, with state of emergency declared in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions.

Does a spooky event in New England 238 years ago hold the clue to the eerie blackness that descended one week ago in Siberia?