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

He landed onto the track in minus 40C wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers. He had left his compartment to go for a cigarette. 

Hunt is on in Japan to find lost descendants of the Siberian-born chemist and inventor.

S7 wins prestigious honour from National Geographic Traveler Awards 2015.

It is only in the vastness of Siberia, perhaps, where a crowdfunded recce trip can lead to such a jaw-dropping discovery...

Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.

Ransom demanded for two UTair staff seized in ambush on UN contract work.

Konstantin Zhuravlyov is missing for two weeks after crossing from Turkey into Syria.

Remains of suspected female of Turkik origin found in at an altitude of 2,803 metres in the Altai Mountains.

Friends of missing American questioned using polygraph by police as search goes on for 25 year old student last seen early Sunday.