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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.

Archeologists find 1,500 years old mummy in Mongolia

Who was the 'phantom girl' in these 110-year-old photographs?

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times

Archeologists find 1,500 years old mummy in Mongolia

Who was the 'phantom girl' in these 110-year-old photographs?

Siberian grandmother is the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

Whiskers still bristling after more than 12,000 years in the Siberian cold 

Siberian babushka aged 86 becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

After 126,000 years, steppe mammoth emerges to show off his giant tusks

Sasha, the world's only baby woolly rhino, is 34,000 years old, say scientists

One year on, Mowgli girl Karina 'totally recovered'

'Mummy of a child warrior from 'lost medieval civilisation'

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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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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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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.

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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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