Sixteen runners braved extreme temperatures at the Pole of Cold.
A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.
Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.
Scientists find how the animals produce ethanol in winter as an anti-freeze giving them the survival spirit.
The Tomsk club has issued a formal protest after claiming its fans were sprayed by a water jet after a goal by rivals FC Sibir.
Ice swimmers from team 'Morozhenki' (Ice-creams) in Vladivostok enjoy their own cold war, and insist it is healthy.
Fast-freezing clothes, hot water fireworks, ice and snow bathing, vodka lollipops, dog sledging - see our report from the Kingdom of Cold.
Amazing pictures of Dekabrina, born in minus 62C in the coldest village in the world.
A dramatic operation in biting cold of minus 41C saved elephants Magda and Jenny from death after a fire in the trailer carrying them across Siberia.
Cats and dogs are left at the mercy of extremely cold weather reaching -50C with no proper animal winter shelter in Yakutsk.