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'The Yenisey began life with a groan and ended with a boldness we could never dream of'

A.P. Chekhov, 1890

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic

Rusting Ilyushin Il-14P with tail number СССР-61755 is located 61 years after his famous speech to the United Nations.

Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

First pictures & video of soft tissues preserved on a newly-discovered mammoth shared by scientists

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic

Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

First pictures & video of soft tissues preserved on a newly-discovered mammoth shared by scientists

Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask

Next ‘stop’ Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean?

Alfresco art gallery ‘shows woolly mammoths and rhinos depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’

Mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head - with a ram’s skull inside

The day the world’s most polluted city was in Siberia

The Leo Express: a rescued Amur leopard is sent on a 9h flight across Russia to cure back tumour

A peer traveller falls knee-deep in ice-cold water

Flying with the wind and climbing ice poles

I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Siberia invites you to visit Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Cannes? No, Kansk!

Awakening after winter, Siberians pour cold water over themselves

Beauty Against Cancer: inspiring pictures show women fighting back

Coming soon: 'Chateau Permafrost', wine from Siberia

200-plus agreements worth $27 billion at forum to 'open up Russian Far East'

Cleaning Baikal, then enjoying the gleaming nature of its surrounding mountains

Accent on age: fashion blogger sets up Russia's first oldie modelling agency

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Unusual burial with boy laid to rest with copper cauldron on his head found on the Yamal peninsula

Completely new burial rite in northern Siberia puzzles scientists.

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Fragment of WWII US bomber leased to USSR and crashed over Siberia found in river Yenisei

Divers fetched a small fragment of Boston A-20 bomber from depth of four metres by the city of Krasnoyarsk.

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Endangered Amur tiger killed by poachers in the Far East of Russia

One of world’s largest and rarest big cats was reintroduced to nature just over a year ago.

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Russia’s coldest city suffocates under a thick blanket of smog from September wildfires

Residents of Yakutsk struggle to breathe as toxic air causes head, eye and throat aches.

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Giant sailing ship encounters no ice as it attempts the Northern Sea Route

Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

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A large new ‘hole’ appears in Gydan tundra, following record-warm Arctic summer

200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

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