Oleg Rezanov says he was in ‘trance’ and unable to breathe but walked away - shaking - in -32C Yakutsk cold.

Geologists say as much as 44.8 billion roubles-worth has been found in valley to the north of famous range.

Svetlana Shupenko moved to the Altai Mountains to get away from it all - and photograph her beloved cats.

Scientists close to precise dating of the Shigir Idol, twice as ancient as the Egyptian Pyramids.

Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.

This Russian treasure has 1,500 species of flora and fauna not found anywhere else on the planet.

It is only in the vastness of Siberia, perhaps, where a crowdfunded recce trip can lead to such a jaw-dropping discovery...

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.