23,856 inhabitants in one of Siberia's remotest outposts suffer winter freeze in minus 25C.
Stuck vessel needs electricity supply from shore after getting gridlocked for rest of winter on Northern Sea Route.
Vessels Kapitan Dranitsyn and Admiral Makarov 'marooned' in east for the rest of winter after getting trapped off Chukotka.
Group had made record-breaking 650km drive on frozen river from Norilsk to Dikson, but got into trouble on return before being plucked to safety.
The fishermen were found drifting on an ice floe in the area bigger than Switzerland.
Three Russian nuclear powered icebreakers are leading a huge gas tanker through the Arctic waters on the roof of Siberia.
First shipment leaves from Yamal Peninsula across the roof of the world as tankers head through the Northern Sea Route for first time.
The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.
Russian officials refused to allow the vessel to enter the Northern Sea Route which Greenpeace dubbed 'a thinly veiled attempt to stifle peaceful protest'.