Siberian mountaintop lavatory is 'the most extreme toilet in the world'.
Problems may not be over yet, warn meteorologists, as police are on high alert in 14 areas.
Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.
72 year old Agafya Lykova begged for help saying she was short of food.
Recent days have seen Siberia's nickel capital hotter than Nice and on a par with Naples.
US National Weather Service claims smoke haze from deadly inferno has crossed the Pacific.
New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.
The Alaska-Siberia flight recalls historic Second World War supply route which helped defeat Nazism.