Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.
Standing two metres tall, the giant deer was assumed to be extinct about 10,300 years ago, but new research finds it was still alive across Siberia.
Vessel Stepan Arzhakov ran aground in Lena River after being washed ashore due to strong early morning crosswinds.
Siberian expedition to find English steamboat 'The Thames' led by pioneering British mariner that sank in 1876.
Fresh blood discovery by scientists in remains of extinct creature as experts start research this month in hunt for live cells.
Even Russia's Health Minister is on antibiotics after visiting victims of the deadly infection as numbers of infected rise.
Palaeontologist says osteoporosis could have been major contributor, brought on by a lack of minerals in habitat from climate change.
Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.
'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.