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Ian Frazier, 2013

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Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia

Pillars of smoke filmed over the areas hit by last summer’s wildfires despite the current long spell of extremely cold weather.

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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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Tashtyk death masks
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Warmest
Novosibirsk
-1°
D: -1°
N: -8°

Coldest
Yakutsk
-51°
D: -43°
N: -51°
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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.

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

Fur or other natural fabric garments protect Oymyakon cattle from getting frostbitten at -50C.

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

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.

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Brown bear cubs fall victim to adult males in Eurasia's largest protected population of the species

This spike of bear cannibalism is reported at the South-Kamchatka nature reserve in Kamchatka.

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Dead giant octopuses washed ashore south from Kamchtka peninsula on the Kuril Islands

Mass death of hydrobionts and fish at the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Kamchatka as battle of the toxic tide versions continues.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

We say

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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