Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.
But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.
Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.
Male students from a dormitory block in Yakutsk, in north eastern Siberia, wanted to do something special to mark International Women's Day
An extraordinary adventure, blessed by the Queen of England and the Tsarina of Russia.
Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.
A desperate rescue mission saved four people - but up to 24 are feared dead in the air tragedy in the Sakha Republic.