record heat Siberia
Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches.
Tyva republic registers Saudi-like heat but is also hit by wildfires.
Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.
Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.
Locals get time off week for rare visit to the beach.
With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.
Confused plants bloom in Sayano-Shushenskiy reserve in Central Siberia, strawberry ripen in the Far East of Russia.
'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.
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