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

First cargo train on the final link of Amur-Yakutsk line in historic expansion of Siberia's great railways.

New route connecting (almost) to diamond capital Yakutsk faces funding and contractor crisis causing delay.

Desert-like landscapes replaced full-flowing water deep enough for heavy cargo ships.

Today it's +32C in Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and locals escape heatwave like true Siberians - by chilling on ice.

Couples celebrate St Valentine's Day with kissathon in Yakutsk.

The world famous English National Ballet with first soloist Anais Chalendard is to perform in the Sakha Republic for the first time.

Sardana Avksentyeva swept to power as mayor of Russia’s diamond capital in September.

Cats and dogs are left at the mercy of extremely cold weather reaching -50C with no proper animal winter shelter in Yakutsk.

Alexander Smelov, 55, killed in his office in Yakutsk.