Up to six more people are feared to be buried beneath the deep snow in temperatures of -25C outside Norilsk.
A theme of modernisation was behind the prime minister's swing through Siberia this week.
Once I managed to make the Kremlin inhabitants to talk like human beings. But this time it was a wall far stronger than the Kremlin’s.
Experts say no sign of any human settlements close to 'largest necropolis in Asia for the extinct beasts'.
Hardy Siberians undaunted by aircraft frozen on tarmac as temperatures sank to a biting minus 52C
Shoreline on remote island retreats by 74 metres in seven years due to increased wave power of unfrozen sea, and thawing permafrost.
Sergey Golubev from Krasnoyarsk left on a 7,120 km round trip by dinghy in July, aiming to return in September.
For most of her life Agafya, 77, has lived as a peasant from the 18th century, guided by an old Bible.
They think wearing their jeans so tight that it pushes their manbits up into the stomachs looks cool, hard and/or fashionable.