city life

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Spectacular whiteout scenes of winter life in the Arctic city of Norilsk.

Angry at condition of Omsk streets, Veronika Bobrus becomes local heroine by fixing problem with her own hands.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

The 'capital of Siberia' this week hosts the World Snow Forum 2013 dedicated to improving modern life for people living in the harshest winter conditions.

Hairy beasts are brought back to life in Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city.

Rare appearance of bear close to Novosibirsk leads to warnings to residents.

President nominates Krasnoyarsk - a city with 'wonderful people' - to be eastern seat of power.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.