'If we die, I love you,' says one bather struck by bullet-like giant hail stones.
Desert-like landscapes replaced full-flowing water deep enough for heavy cargo ships.
Is global warming the real cause of the raging wildfires sweeping this Siberian republic?
Tatyana had been given a week to live last year and had defied the odds, but sadly has now lost her fight for life.
Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.
New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.
Crater 'swallowed ex-cop', but no-one can find him a week later.