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A.P. Chekhov, 1890

Prehistoric people developed a technique for making a playdough-like material from mammoth ivory

The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.

Cows in the world’s coldest inhabited place have to wear mouton bras for outdoor walks

Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video

Prehistoric people developed a technique for making a playdough-like material from mammoth ivory

Cows in the world’s coldest inhabited place have to wear mouton bras for outdoor walks

Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video

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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Teenage woolly rhino could have been hunted by predators into water, where it drowned

Studies begin on a massive and very well-fed Pleistocene era rhino found in Yakutia with its horn and one tooth.

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Manicures, massages, warm milk and 24/7 care to raise polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Four Russian women share unique experience of becoming mother bears in the first ever attempt to nurture zoo cubs.

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Five year old girl rescued from a sewage well after eight hours at -20C on the island of Sakhalin

Hundreds of volunteers joined police and turned every stone to find scared and frostbitten Yana.

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Six zoo staff play foster parents to polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Only a handful of such cubs worldwide have been successfully nurtured in captivity.

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Russia’s most popular mayor in charge of country’s diamond capital resigns over ‘health issues’

Sardana Avksentyeva, 51, is known across the world as The Iron Lady of Siberia.

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So desperate to get to the sea, we made our own white beach in Siberia

Tomsk journalist created stunning tropical island image in -25C snow to cheer up locals during Covid-19 travel restrictions.

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