The stunning pictures of a volcanic eruption and lava flow were taken by Liudmila and Andrew, bloggers and travellers.
The tragedy was at an industrial waste plant near the oil rich Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk.
No danger of radiation in the Russian Far East from blaze caused by welding accident, insist experts.
Police save the child from clutches of man, 40, with another version that she was to be 'sold for human organs' on black market.
Emergency services in major operation with higher toll feared.
Sergey Golubev from Krasnoyarsk left on a 7,120 km round trip by dinghy in July, aiming to return in September.
Schoolgirls found the kittens on waste land in Novosibirsk, and built a shelter.