Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

New research shows rare genetic lines could have been preserved in Siberia.

 Novosibirsk resident developed symptoms of the illness that has baffled scientists and doctors during visit to family in Kazakhstan.

Vivid red and orange paintings by Bronze Age artists go on show for the first time.

Filmed here over the city of Omsk, the meteor - or was it a rocket or test firing of a ballistic missile? - startled people over a swathe of territory.

Monuments to the Bolshevik leader are the key to a new competitive sport called Lenining. 

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.