Now The Siberian Times is seeking to find descendants of British mariner Captain Joseph Wiggin. 

Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

A helicopter carrying ammonite - used to break ice - crashed in Irkutsk region after 'exploding in mid air'.

Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.

Expedition by leading chemistry institute finds area where it fell.

Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.

Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches. 

Husband watches as wife is carried away by fast moving mud river after major flooding.

It was in August 1917 - 95 years ago this month - that the abdicated emperor and his fearful family departed Tyumen into their Siberian exile.