Wanderlust beast kept returning to main airport in Kamchatka, this week breaking in through a metal security fence.
On 10 February, eight travellers set out on a two month odyssey covering 4,000 km through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.
An extraordinary adventure, blessed by the Queen of England and the Tsarina of Russia.
Photographer seeks crowdfunding for trip to this little known natural wonder so remote that almost no pictures exist.
Lucky escape due to chance sighting by helicopter after snowmobiles broke miles into the snowy nowhere.
Construction has begun on a Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Novosibirsk with its opening planned for 2014.
Nicknamed Forrest Gump, he completes a 9,905 kilometre odyssey braving temperatures as low as minus 48C on his 18 month adventure.
The 19th century vessel - formerly the Royal Navy's HMS Pandora - sank as Americans raced to be first to North Pole.