Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.
Special train - the Eurasian Star - will reopen exotic and historic trail linking China, Mogolia and Russia.
New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.
As they say, anything you Cannes do, we Kansk do better. Or at least do, too.
He chose to become a hermit for six months on the shore of Lake Baikal in deep winter, miles from the nearest town and city.
Marriott opens prestigious new hotel on 16 June in Novosibirsk, Siberia's biggest city.
When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.
New crossing on the Ob River has the longest arch span in Russia and world's largest mesh arch.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.