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Mrs John Clarence Lee, 1914

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

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

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

Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.

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

Aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago, he is from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakassia.

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Arctic fires worsen and threaten world famous park set up to recreate flora of woolly mammoth era

Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.

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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.

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

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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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